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Love Those Dungeness Crab!
The first month of the recreational dungeness crab season is in the books, and it's been pretty darn good. Opening day was a little tough with around 6 crab per person and around half limits of rockfish, but it's been limits or close to limits most days after that. Over 2500 crab have been landed for just over 290 people, and good numbers of rockfish have been caught, too. We will continue to offer crab combo trips through the end of the year, but we have a couple of other trips we've put on the books:
We will be running Deep Water Rockfishing trips on Tuesdays. These trips will concentrate on catching the quality rockfish available offshore in deeper depths (300 feet +/-). Bring out your heavy tackle or pick up what you need when you arrive. Trips depart at 7am, return by 3pm or sooner if we obtain boat limits, and the fare is $170 per person.
We're offering more of the popular 1/2 day local rockfishing trips on Thursdays. These trips don't leave until 10am (we all get to sleep in a bit!) and will return by 3pm or sooner if we obtain boat limits, and the fare is $95 per person.
For those who want crab only, we have Crab Only trips available on Fridays. These trips will only be targeting crab, no rockfish. They leave by 8am and return by 3pm or sooner if/when we land 10 crab per person, and the fare is $195.
You can book these trips online on our "Book Online" tab on our website, or by calling our shop between 8am and 3:30 p.m. Wednesday through Sunday. Hope you take advantage of these specials and see you soon!
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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