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Fishing forecast for Half Moon Bay
The coast just south of San Francisco: Pillar Point harbor, the big wave reef at Mavericks, and productive rockfish and lingcod grounds. Cold, often green, big swell water. A fishing and spearfishing coast where timing the swell window is everything.
Open the app for the tides, wind, pressure trend, water temperature and the 0 to 10 bite score for Half Moon Bay, CA.
Notable species
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What Submarius shows for Half Moon Bay
This page reads Half Moon Bay at 37.46°N, 122.43°W, in San Francisco Peninsula. Open the same point in the app for:
- A 0 to 10 rating. For fishing at Half Moon Bay today, from Rough to Prime, and you can tap any factor to see why.
- Best 3 hour window. The three hours in the next 24 that score best.
- Tide. Rising, falling or slack, the next high or low, and a 24 hour curve.
- Wind. Speed and direction, with gusts.
- Waves and swell. Wave height and swell, with the second and third swell by the hour.
- Water temperature. With the air temperature underneath.
- Pressure trend. Sea level pressure and its 6 hour trend.
- Bite score. 0 to 10, from Off to Hot, for how likely fish are to be feeding. It rates timing and habitat, not where the fish are.
- Weather warnings. National Weather Service warnings for this spot and its marine zone.
- Reefs and wrecks map (Pro). Charted wrecks, reefs and obstructions where sources have them, with the seabed depth beside each (an estimate where no chart reports one).
- 8 day forecast (Pro). Days 2 to 8, with each day's bite peak.
Safety in the water
Every safety tool in Submarius is free. With Safety Watch you set a "back by" time and pick who watches. If you don't check in by then, the server alerts them by push or email, even if your phone is dead. It needs a free account and never contacts the coast guard.
When Spearfishing is your mode, a shark awareness card also lists the shark species recorded in the area and any community sightings from the last 48 hours.
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Today's conditions, safety tools and trip recording are free. Pro adds the 8 day forecast, the Pro map layers, cam playback and offline areas for $12.99 a month or $99 a year, or $149 once (US prices).