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Best score today · 7 PM · Cabezon

71/100Great

Now: 454 AM PDT
Best window: 6-10 PMFlood tide
Tide now: Low0.3 ft

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Best days to fish

Best: Fri · 77

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Conditions · 4 AM · now

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Time4ANOW

Score45Good

Tide0.3 ftLow

CurrentEbb0.7 kn · toward SW

Wind3 kn SSEgusts 5 · steady

Sea stateRough5.3 ft · 9 s

Air temp56°Mild

WeatherPartly cloudy31% cloud

Water64°FObserved

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Current regulations

What you can keep here today

San Francisco Groundfish Management Area

IN EFFECT NOW

Cabezon

Retention open

Daily limit: 10 per day (10 rockfish, cabezon and greenlings combined)
Possession: Not published
Size: No minimum size limit.
Season: Apr 1 to Dec 31, 2026
Annual quota: Not published
Other: Shore-based anglers and spear divers are exempt from groundfish seasons and depth limits. All groundfish fishing is prohibited at Cordell Bank. RCG complex: all rockfish, cabezon, and kelp and rock greenlings combined. A descending device must be aboard when fishing from a boat.

From CDFW Summary of Recreational Groundfish Fishing Regulations (updated June 23, 2026), read Sep 13

Other species here

Albacore tuna Retention open (25 per day)
Barred sand bass Retention open (4 per day (5 kelp bass, barred sand bass and spotted sand bass combined))
California halibut Retention open (2 per day)
Chinook salmon Retention open (2 per day (2 salmon combined))
Coho salmon Closed (No retention)
Kelp bass Retention open (5 per day (5 kelp bass, barred sand bass and spotted sand bass combined))
Kelp greenling Retention open (10 per day (10 rockfish, cabezon and greenlings combined))
Leopard shark Retention open (3 per day)
Lingcod Retention open (2 per day)
Mahi-mahi Retention open (10 per day)
Pacific bluefin tuna Retention open (2 per day)
Pacific halibut Retention open (1 per day)
Rockfish Retention open (10 per day (10 rockfish, cabezon and greenlings combined))
Sablefish Retention open (10 per day)
Striped bass Retention open (2 per day)
Surfperch Retention open (20 per day)
White seabass Retention open (3 per day)
Yellowfin tuna Retention open (10 per day)
Yellowtail Retention open (10 per day)

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Source: CDFW · synced yesterday

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Spot profile

Cone Rock

Depth: 7-10 ftFlat bottom
Structure: Ledge · Inner · Semi-exposedLedge · flat bottom
Season: Peak seasonCabezon

NOAA NCEI DEM, sampled Sep 14 on a 3.4 m grid. Depths are feet below NAVD 88, not chart datum (MLLW), so they can differ from a chart by a few feet. Not for navigation.

About this spot

Fishing Cone Rock

Cone Rock is a bar in San Pablo Bay, Suisun Bay, the West Delta and the San Francisco Bay north of the Bay Bridge, California. Depth is 7-10 ft, with a flat bottom. Its profile reads ledge, inner water and semi-exposed.

Waterlands scores 11 species here; the best right now are rockfish, striped bass and white seabass. It is peak season now for rockfish, striped bass, cabezon and surfperch, and shoulder season for white seabass, Pacific halibut, lingcod and kelp greenling. Rockfish peak from May through September. Striped bass peak from June through July and from September through October.

Tackle & technique

Cabezon: Cabezon sit in rock crevices, kelp beds and jetty boulders from the intertidal zone to about 100 feet and feed mostly on crabs and small fish. Fish a fish-finder rig with sand shrimp, squid or crab right on the bottom in the rocks, or drag a lead-head grub slowly through the kelp. Expect snags, and do not eat the roe, which is toxic.
Rockfish: Rockfish live on rocky reefs, pinnacles and kelp from the shoreline out past 300 feet, with black and blue rockfish schooling mid-water over shallow reefs and copper, quillback, yelloweye and vermilion sitting tight to deeper bottom. Drift over the structure with a shrimp fly above a lead-head grub or metal jig, or a squid strip, and reel up a few cranks after touching bottom to cut snags. Use a descending device to release any fish brought up from deep water.
Striped bass: Striped bass feed where moving tide pushes bait past structure: inlets, points, jetties, bridge pilings and rips in the surf, usually in 2 to 40 feet of water. Fish dawn, dusk and night hardest, casting plugs, bucktails and soft plastics or drifting live bunker and eels, and chunk bait on the bottom in current. In midsummer the larger fish drop deeper or feed mostly after dark.

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