BODEGA BAY – The Dungeness crab season is in full swing and anglers have been catching limits of rockfish and limits of crabs on recent crab/rockfish trips aboard the New Sea Angler out of Bodega Bay Sportfishing.

On his latest fishing adventure on Nov. 21, Rick Powers reported in with 140 Dungeness crab to 2-1.2 pounds and 140 rockfish for 14 anglers. “The weather conditions were great and we finished with full limits of crabs and rockfish by noon,” Powers noted.

The previous trip aboard the New Sea Angler yielded 20 Dungeness crab up to 2.5 pounds. 120 rockfish and 2 lingcod up to 10 pounds.

Anglers are using an array of bars, jigs, swimbaits and other lures, tipped with squid strips, to land the lingcod and rockfish.

The recreational groundfish regulations in the San Francisco Management Area (from Point Arena to Pigeon Point) are available here: https://nrm.dfg.ca.gov/FileHandler.ashx?DocumentID=185056&inline

Willy Vogler at Lawson’s Landing in Dillon Beach shared a report from Kelley Roy about the excellent crab fishing available now in the outer bay.

“We dropped nets shallow and deep with both depths getting crab, but the shallow probably did a little better than the deep. There were some nice, very nice jumbos in the mix. We were able to get 3 decent limits - easy day,” Roy stated.

The outer bay has been pretty consistent when you can fish it from here. There's some blank spots and some great spots and a lot of in-between spots. Make sure you put your hoops in a not blank spot before you give them a soak. I have heard that 30 to 50 feet of water has been pretty good,” Roy said.