07 September 2025
SF Bay Fishing Report: Salmon, Stripers & Halibut Action on Tap for September 7th
San Francisco Bay Daily Fishing Report
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Good morning, anglers, this is Artificial Lure with your San Francisco Bay fishing report for Sunday, September 7th, 2025.
The sun’s coming up at 6:45 this morning, giving us a prime window with cool, calm air and light marine fog—typical for a Bay September. Expect a high tide rolling in around 12:42 PM at about 5.74 feet and a minus low just before dawn at 6:00 AM, then again at 6:07 PM with about 1.5 feet. Big tidal swings today mean feeding windows should fire up around those changes; work the shallows near first light, then follow fish deeper as the current pushes in.
Let’s get to the action: King salmon are hot right now just outside and along the Marin coast, with party boats from Berkeley reporting limits or near-limits. Yesterday, the California Dawn II saw 24 anglers bring in 38 kings, and New Easy Rider’s tally was 38 salmon for 19 folks. Most fish ran 18–25 pounds, with a few hitting the 28-pound mark, quality for late season. Trolling is tops—Anglers are scoring with anchovy and herring rigs behind flashers, and chartreuse or white hoochies are out-fishing plain spoons. For bait, tray anchovies with a teaser head in the morning bite, then try chrome or watermelon spoons as the sun gets up.
Inside the Bay, striped bass activity is steady, especially around the Alameda rockwall and the south end of Treasure Island. The minus tide this morning will pull bait out of the estuaries—follow the birds and you’ll find surface boils where stripers are blitzing anchovy schools. Toss white or pearl swimbaits, bucktail jigs tipped with a twister tail, or try trolling a deep-diving Yo-Zuri or Lucky Craft minnow in shad or anchovy pattern. Cut anchovies or pile worms on a hi-lo rig will do the job around the piers and jetties when the current slows.
Halibut catches have slowed a bit as we get later in the season, but patient drifters working live anchovies near Angel Island and Berkeley Flats are still putting a few solid fish in the box, especially on the incoming tide.
If rockfish or a lingcod is on your ticket, head just outside the Gate to Seal Rocks or south to Pacifica reefs. There’s been quality action; just make sure you mind the swells and stay within safe weather windows.
Hot spots today:
- The Marin coastline, from Stinson south to Muir, is money for salmon on the troll.
- Inside the Bay, the flats off Alcatraz and the Sausalito shoreline produce schoolie stripers and the odd halibut, especially working the edges of deeper channels at tide changes.
To sum it up: Fish the tide windows, come rigged for salmon outside and stripers or halibut inside. Trolling tray anchovies, white hoochies, or swimbaits gets it done. And if you’re out for rockfish, jigs and squid strips are classic.
Thanks for tuning in to the report—I’m Artificial Lure. Subscribe and stay on top of the bite, and best of luck on the water today. This has been a quiet please production, for more check out quiet please dot ai.
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The sun’s coming up at 6:45 this morning, giving us a prime window with cool, calm air and light marine fog—typical for a Bay September. Expect a high tide rolling in around 12:42 PM at about 5.74 feet and a minus low just before dawn at 6:00 AM, then again at 6:07 PM with about 1.5 feet. Big tidal swings today mean feeding windows should fire up around those changes; work the shallows near first light, then follow fish deeper as the current pushes in.
Let’s get to the action: King salmon are hot right now just outside and along the Marin coast, with party boats from Berkeley reporting limits or near-limits. Yesterday, the California Dawn II saw 24 anglers bring in 38 kings, and New Easy Rider’s tally was 38 salmon for 19 folks. Most fish ran 18–25 pounds, with a few hitting the 28-pound mark, quality for late season. Trolling is tops—Anglers are scoring with anchovy and herring rigs behind flashers, and chartreuse or white hoochies are out-fishing plain spoons. For bait, tray anchovies with a teaser head in the morning bite, then try chrome or watermelon spoons as the sun gets up.
Inside the Bay, striped bass activity is steady, especially around the Alameda rockwall and the south end of Treasure Island. The minus tide this morning will pull bait out of the estuaries—follow the birds and you’ll find surface boils where stripers are blitzing anchovy schools. Toss white or pearl swimbaits, bucktail jigs tipped with a twister tail, or try trolling a deep-diving Yo-Zuri or Lucky Craft minnow in shad or anchovy pattern. Cut anchovies or pile worms on a hi-lo rig will do the job around the piers and jetties when the current slows.
Halibut catches have slowed a bit as we get later in the season, but patient drifters working live anchovies near Angel Island and Berkeley Flats are still putting a few solid fish in the box, especially on the incoming tide.
If rockfish or a lingcod is on your ticket, head just outside the Gate to Seal Rocks or south to Pacifica reefs. There’s been quality action; just make sure you mind the swells and stay within safe weather windows.
Hot spots today:
- The Marin coastline, from Stinson south to Muir, is money for salmon on the troll.
- Inside the Bay, the flats off Alcatraz and the Sausalito shoreline produce schoolie stripers and the odd halibut, especially working the edges of deeper channels at tide changes.
To sum it up: Fish the tide windows, come rigged for salmon outside and stripers or halibut inside. Trolling tray anchovies, white hoochies, or swimbaits gets it done. And if you’re out for rockfish, jigs and squid strips are classic.
Thanks for tuning in to the report—I’m Artificial Lure. Subscribe and stay on top of the bite, and best of luck on the water today. This has been a quiet please production, for more check out quiet please dot ai.
Great deals on fishing gear https://amzn.to/44gt1Pn