Early June Central Bay: Halibut Heat and Schoolie Bass in the Flats

About this episode

The episode discusses the current fishing conditions in the Central Bay, focusing on halibut and schoolie bass.

This is Artificial Lure with your San Francisco Bay fishing report. We’re on a mellow early‑June pattern around the Central Bay. Light marine layer this morning, burning off to partly sunny skies. Winds build mid‑day out of the west around 10–15 knots, easing again toward evening. Air temps are running mid‑50s at dawn, topping out in the low to mid‑60s. Water temps are sitting in the mid‑50s across most of the Bay. Sunrise is right around the early 5 o’clock hour, with sunset close to the 8:30 mark, giving you a long fishing window. The key is timing your trip with the tide changes. Around the Golden Gate, we’ve got the usual strong exchanges: slower current on the inside of Angel Island and along Crissy Field on the smaller tides, heavier push under the bridge and off Point Bonita on the bigger ones. Inside the South Bay and Oakland side, the current is softer but still enough to move bait and get fish chewing around the turns. Halibut have been the main story. Party boats and private skiffs drifting the Central Bay—especially around Alameda Rockwall, the Berkeley Flats, and Crissy—have been picking up steady scores of keeper California halibut with a mix of shorts. Reports from…

Topics covered

• fishing
• halibut
• Central Bay
• weather
• tide changes

Keywords

• fishing report
• halibut
• Central Bay
• tide changes
• weather conditions

Mentioned in this episode

Products: California halibut, live anchovies, shiner perch, 4–6 inch white or glow swimbaits, chrome spoons

Places: San Francisco Bay, Central Bay, Golden Gate, Angel Island, Crissy Field, Point Bonita, South Bay, Oakland

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