Recreational Fishing

Fishing along the Mendocino coast is guaranteed to be something you’ll never forget, whether you catch your first 25 pound salmon, pop your first abalone off the rocks, or spend a day out at sea tossing more than your line overboard!  Those brave enough to face the sometimes formidable weather and seas, can pursue an annual round of fisheries that includes salmon (when the season is open), albacore in late summer (when it is within range), abalone (late spring through fall) crab in winter, and rockfish year-round (subject to closure when quotas have been reached).

Fishing regulations can be complex, and they are always changing, so we have tried to simplify some of the information and provide the more important facts in the following button.