San Francisco Bay Fly Fishing Report 

Kevin DeGulis reports on 5.17.18

LCO hosted our third Fly Fish the surf clinic on Mothers Day. The group fished hard, cast after cast but nothing came up, so we took a break and watched the water. Talking about fly rigs, structure, seams, foam lines, migration, casting, and of course fish behavior. Once things seemed “fishy” the group lined up, casting...

Capt. Gregg Holland reports on 5.17.18

SF Bay

The bay has been fishing well with a nice push of bass moving from the delta out to the beach. Warmer water has brought in bait so for the next few weeks, good fishing should continue. 

The boys from LCO joined me on the 15th for some great shallow water rock fishing off the Sonoma Coast. 

Sonoma Coast

We got into some suspended Blues and China Cod some...

Kevin DeGulis reports on 5.3.18

What a difference a week makes! The bay is hot and heavy right now, so get after it. 

Saturday we hosted our second Fly Fishing the Surf Clinic, it was a home run. We had 8 participants join us for the day: Martin, a long time fly angler and part of the Golden Gate Casting Club, has always dreamed of catching a California halibut on the fly. Over the past couple...

Kevin DeGulis reports on 4.12.18

The Bay

As all weather apps falsely implied that it would be a rain-soaked weekend in the Bay area, LCO ambassador Jon Ng woke up Saturday morning to perfect blue skies. Taking advantage of the surprising weather, he decided to head down to Crissy Field for some surf fishing. Jon was especially excited today, due to the fact he finally received his “dream surf...

Kevin DeGulis reports on 4.5.18

The Bay Area

Friday 

The weekend started off with a bang– or should I say Barred! The entire LCO team (besides Art and George(someone had to work…)) went fishing; Steve, Sarah, Ben, and I headed towards the Golden Gate Bridge.

On the way, we were grooving to some live bluesy tunes from Chicago’s oldest and finest blues bar, Kingston Mines–live blues 7 days a week until...

Kevin DeGulis and The LCO team reports on 3.28.18

Knowing that April is on the horizon, the Lost Coast Outfitters team made it a goal to fish both the California Delta and the San Francisco day in one weekend.  

Delta

The first step was to prepare. Luckily, Friday Redington sent two 8 weight Crux and two 7/8 Redington rises to match. Ben had his Sage One with a Bauer Reel and one old-school sage...

Captain Greg Holland reports on 3.29.18

The Bay

Could not have started the 2018 year off any better than on Wednesday the 28th. Had a guest on board from Banff and we enjoyed a beautiful sunrise stripping flys on Cronkite Beach then moving on to Red Rock for half dozen schoolie stripers.  

The conditions are perfect for a great striper and halibut year with all the bait and runoff. Olive over white...

Kevin DeGulis and Ben Engle reports on 3.22.18

San Francisco Bay

Surf fishing in the bay is continuing to pick up, areas around the golden gate seem to be the most productive. Ben and I went up to Bolinas, California Sunday in hopes of finding leopard sharks. As we kept on getting stuck in mud we decided to ditch the leopard shark hunt and go towards the Golden Gate. We had some luck Ben was able to...

Kevin DeGulis reports on 3.16.18

San Francisco Bay has been heating up this past week. The shallow estuary is an ideal spawning ground for various migrating species.
Areas near the Golden Gate Bridge have been most productive for halibut and surf perch. 

To catch these, use OPST laser line and the Rio outbound short shooting head sink 3. As for flies, clouser chartreuse, deceiver chartreuse, stay...