Saltwater Report - San Francisco Bay Fishing Report

San Francisco Bay Fishing Report

San Francisco Bay - San Francisco, CA

Photo Credit: Courtesy of California Delta Chambers & Visitors Bureau

by Fish Reports Staff
8-23-2019

The halibut and striped bass fishing still prevails in the bay off the flats and rock piles drifting live anchovies. Outside the Gate party boats are still

converging around Seal Rock for limits of halibut where James Smith aboard the California Dawn reported that one of his clients caught the biggest halibut of the season, a 50 pounder.

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