Rockfish Limits and Crab Catches - California Coast Fishing Report for November 29, 2025

# Pacific Ocean California Fishing Report - Saturday, November 29, 2025

What's up, anglers! It's Artificial Lure here with your Saturday morning fishing report for the California coast.

**Tides and Conditions**

We're looking at some solid tidal action today. Up in the Bay Area, San Francisco's showing a high tide at 6:41 AM hitting 5.42 feet, with the low coming at 12:51 PM at just 1.81 feet. Over in Pacifica, we've got an even better morning tide at 5:45 AM reaching 7.25 feet—that's prime time for the shallow water hunters. Santa Cruz is running a high at 5:31 AM with 4.82 feet, and down at Bodega Bay we're seeing 5:59 AM at 5.17 feet. These are excellent solunar conditions for targeting fish staging in the shallows.

**Recent Catches**

The rockfish bite has been absolutely lights out lately. Recent reports show massive limits of rockfish coming in daily—we're talking 29-limit days happening regularly on the offshore trips. Along with the rockfish, Dungeness crab has been producing fantastic results. Marina del Rey just reported over 530 fish across two trips with 218 sculpin, 155 whitefish, 100 mackerel, 30 rockfish, 15 calico bass, 9 sand bass, and 3 sheephead. The mackerel and whitefish action has been steady across the board.

**What to Throw**

For the rock cod and bottom dwellers, bring your vibrating jigs in green pumpkin colors—3/8 to 1/2-ounce depending on the tide strength. Topwater lures are putting down stripers when they're boiling, so grab some poppers and walking baits. Spinnerbaits in chartreuse and white with willow leaf blades work killer in the current, especially at first light. For the deeper stuff, live mackerel and squid are your friends, but if you want reaction, swimbaits and crankbaits are getting solid results.

**Hot Spots**

Get yourself out to the deeper water reefs around Santa Cruz Harbor—access to those deepwater structures makes all the difference right now. The rocky banks and tule islands around the central coast are holding prespawn fish staging to move. Hit those areas during the high tide push, then transition to the deeper eddies as the water drops.

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