Bay Area Dawn Bite: Stripers, Halibut, and Prime Tides on April 22

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This episode covers the fishing conditions and best practices for angling in the San Francisco Bay Area on April 22, 2026.

Hey folks, this is Artificial Lure, your go-to guy for all things angling in the San Francisco Bay Area. We're talkin' April 22, 2026, kickin' off at 3 AM PDT under partly cloudy skies with temps hoverin' around 50°F, light winds from the southeast at 5-10 mph, and a slight chance of showers clearin' by midday—perfect for a dawn bite before it warms to the mid-60s. Sunrise hits at 6:25 AM, sunset at 7:50 PM, givin' us a solid 13+ hours of light. Tides are prime today: low at 4:12 AM (-0.8 ft), floodin' strong through sunrise to high at 10:28 AM (+5.2 ft), then droppin' to low at 5:01 PM (+1.1 ft). Fish the incomin' tide hard—bait moves right to the structure. Action's heatin' up with stripers on the prowl post-new moon, schoolies to 30+ inches pushin' into the bay from the south, mixin' with halibut flats and sturgeon in the channels. Recent reports from local charter logs show limits of striped bass on live shiner minnows and anchovies, plus keeper halibut up to 20 lbs on swimbaits near the Golden Gate. Leopard sharks are stackin' up too, hammerin' squid strips. Limits of Dungeness crab pots goin' full too if you're crabbin'. Best baits: live anchovies or sardines under a hi-lo…

People in this episode

Host: Artificial Lure

Topics covered

• fishing
• striped bass
• halibut
• tides
• San Francisco Bay
• crabbing
• bait and lures

Keywords

• fishing report
• San Francisco Bay
• stripers
• halibut
• tides
• bait
• crabbing

Mentioned in this episode

Products: Dungeness crab, striped bass, halibut, leopard sharks, swimbaits, anchovies, sardines, ghost shrimp, bloodworms, Rat-L-Traps

Places: San Francisco Bay Area, Golden Gate, Point Richmond

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