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June 26 Shop Update
ROCKFISH: JULY SPECIAL EVERY TUESDAY...ONLY $95!! - Local rockfishing trips on Tuesdays departing at 10am and returnng by 3pm. And the recreational rockfishing season is in full swing! The season is the same as last year: May through September as well as November is coastal rockfishing from shore to no deeper than 120 feet. April, October and December are deep sea rockfishing, fishing depths outside 300 feet. There's only one change in the regs from last year: there is no minimum size limit on cabezon or seatrout (kelp greenling).
SALMON: It's official: the Department of Fish and Wildlife has closed the remaining dates of the SUMMER salmon season for July and August as the 7,000 summer harvest guideline has been met. The 2025 recreational salmon "summer" season opened on June 7-8 and was absolutely phenominal off our coastline! Preliminary info is that over 9,000 salmon were landed. Recreational salmon will, barring any unforeseen changes, DEFINITELY REOPEN FOR THE "FALL SEASON" slated to open September 4, 5, 6 and 7. The separate "fall fishery" off the Bay Area coastline is scheduled for Sept. 4-7, 29-30, October 1-5 and 27-31...or until no more than 7,500 salmon are landed during that time period. Limit is 2 salmon per person with a 20 inch minimum size. Those dates are on our online booking system, so grab your spot(s) as soon as possible! They go quick!
WE HAVE GRAY HARBOR TRAY ANCHOVIES!!! Green label, 10 count, $8.95 per tray. Look fantastic! Also have some really good looking Harbor Herring tray herring in stock...three sizes available.
AROUND THE HARBOR: Perch along the coastline, and sardines and anchovies are starting to show up just outside the harbor. Lots of folks are enjoying catching both rock and dungeness crab off the fishing pier inside the harbor as well as on the jetty. Recreational dungeness crab season is open through the end of June in our area, but recreational crabbers are restricted to using hoop nets and crab snares only (no crab pots) through the close of the recreational crab season. Rock crab season is open all year. If you're interested in monkeyface eel, there's loads of them available hidden in the jetty rocks for poke-pole anglers. Definitely not be a bad idea to try to find a few stripers along the beaches, too.
QUEEN OF HEARTS TRIPS: The Queen of Hearts is coastal rockfishing through September, deep sea fishing October and December, and is also scheduling salmon fishing when permitted during September and October. Spots for the limited salmon season fill quick, so if you're looking to grab a spot, book it asap! Dungeness crab and rockfish combo trips begin the first Saturday in November.
CRAB: The commercial dungeness crab season is now closed...however, there are a few boats that have a special permit which allows them to continue to catch and sell dungeness crab off their boats here at the harbor. Otherwise, the full commercial season is scheduled to hopefully reopen in November.
SHOP SCHEDULE: We are open Wednesdays through Sundays from at least 8am to 4pm. We will open at 6am if the Queen of Hearts is going out or if the weather looks good on a Saturday or Sunday. Monday and Tuesdays will be closed unless the QH is going out; on those days we'll be open from 6am to 7am ONLY or 9am to 10am ONLY.
Welcome to Half Moon Bay Sportfishing and Tackle, located on the coast about 20 miles south of San Francisco, the only stop you have to make for the fishing adventure of a lifetime! We have the supplies you need for a fantastic day on the water onboard the charterboats that book through our shop as well as all the basic gear, bait, and tackle you need for a great trip on your own boat or from the shore. You can also purchase day and annual fishing licenses as well as commercial fishing and hunting licenses at our shop. Our staff has unsurpased knowledge of gear and techniques for salmon, rockfishing, surf fishing, Dungeness crab and other various species of ocean dwellers that live in our part of the ocean.
Got Bait?
We've always had a complete array of the best bait that's available for sale in our shop that is constantly rotated to be as fresh as possible. But now we've gone one step further...Half Moon Bay Sportfishing is one of the first bait and tackle shops in California to own its own frozen bait vending machine available outside our front door 24 hours a day 7 days a week. Even when the shop is closed or we're crazy busy getting our charterboat customers out first thing in the morning, you can purchase your frozen bait from the machine using either cash or credit cards and get on out to the water quickly and easily.
Charterboat Trips
Half Moon Bay Sportfishing and Tackle is proud to be the booking agent for the vessel Queen of Hearts, which has taken more people fishing out of Half Moon Bay than any other boat, hands down, since 1990. The Queen of Hearts is Coast Guard licensed and inspected, insured, well maintained, and has an impeccable safety record. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, beginning in March 2020 when the stay at home orders were established, we discontinued booking any other vessels other than the Queen of Hearts through our shop.
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