Happy Hooker Sportfishing - Berkeley, CA

Happy Hooker Sportfishing
201 University Avenue
Berkeley, CA 94710

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Fish Counts for August 24th, 2026
Boat	Trip Type	Anglers	Fish Count
Happy Hooker	Full Day	8	8 Sevengill Shark, 2 Sevengill Shark Released
Happy Hooker Sportfishing Dock Totals
1 Boat	1 Trip	8 Anglers	8 Sevengill Shark, 2 Sevengill Shark Released
As of 2:30 PM August 24th, 2026

2026	Jan \| Feb \| Mar \| Apr \| May \| Jun \| Jul \| Aug
2025	Jan \| Feb \| Mar \| Apr \| May \| Jun \| Jul \| Aug \| Sep \| Oct \| Nov \| Dec

Annual Landing Totals
	Cabezon	California Halibut	Chinook Salmon	Dungeness Crab	Leopard Shark	Lingcod	Rock Sole	Rockfish	Soupfin Shark	Striped Bass	Thresher Shark	Vermilion Rockfish	White Seabass
2026	3	254	431	-	-	328	-	2933	1	1787	-	30	1
2025	1	873	135	3580	-	677	-	6675	-	1135	1	-	-

Annual Landing Totals
Species	2026	2025
Cabezon	3	1
California Halibut	254	873
Chinook Salmon	431	135
Dungeness Crab	-	3580
Leopard Shark	-	-
Lingcod	328	677
Rock Sole	-	-
Rockfish	2933	6675
Soupfin Shark	1	-
Striped Bass	1787	1135
Thresher Shark	-	1
Vermilion Rockfish	30	-
White Seabass	1	-

Tide Chart

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Happy Hooker Sportfishing Fleet

7 gill shark limits

by JONATHON SMITH

Shark fishing started slow this morning but we got into wide open 7 gill in the afternoon. Caught limits of good size eaters and released a couple of cows around 200lbs. We are going out tomorrow for more shark and

(More...) (Monday, August 24, 2026)

48 Lingcod

by JONATHON SMITH

Wide Open Lingcod today in shallow water. They bit swimbaits, grubs, farallon feathers, and hitchhiked on small rockfish. Rockfish bit well also, we finished up with 48 lingcod and 240 rockfish for 24 anglers and 1 halibut. Shallow water rockfishing has

(More...) (Sunday, August 23, 2026)

Wide open lingcod

by JONATHON SMITH

Great day on shallow water Lingcod. Today they bit straight farallon feathers with anchovies and we caught half of them hitchhiking on small rockfish. One angler landed 2 keepers on shrimp flys on one cast. It was wide open on

(More...) (Saturday, August 22, 2026)

Happy Hooker Sportfishing Fish Reports
Date	Report Author Audio
8-24-2026	7 gill shark limits Shark fishing started slow this morning but we got into wide open 7 gill in the afternoon. Caught limits of... more » Jonathon Smith Happy Hooker
8-23-2026	48 Lingcod Wide Open Lingcod today in shallow water. They bit swimbaits, grubs, farallon feathers, and hitchhiked on small rockfish. Rockfish bit... more » Jonathon Smith Happy Hooker
8-22-2026	Wide open lingcod Great day on shallow water Lingcod. Today they bit straight farallon feathers with anchovies and we caught half of them... more » Jonathon Smith Happy Hooker
8-21-2026	Limits of lingcod and rockfish We struck out on halibut today because the wind blew up on us in the afternoon. But the lingcod and... more » Jonathon Smith Happy Hooker
8-16-2026	Great Islands Fishing We had a good mix of yellows, bococio, widow and vermillion rockfish today at the farallons. The lingcod bit wide... more » Jonathon Smith Happy Hooker
8-15-2026	Faralon islands rockfish and lingcod 🎣 Another great day aboard the F/V Pacific Dream! 🎣 We had 25 anglers on board today, targeting rockfish and lingcod.... more » Chris Smith Pacific Dream
8-14-2026	Limits of Salmon We caught limits of salmon today for 5 people by 9:30. Mostly big fish and stuck it out a little... more » Jonathon Smith Happy Hooker
8-8-2026	Triple Limits! Triple Limits today! We had a few no shows today so we only ran with 5 anglers. Lingcod and rockfish... more » Jonathon Smith Happy Hooker
8-2-2026	Salmon trolling 🚨🐟 Another Fantastic King Salmon Day Aboard the F/V Pacific Dream! 🐟🚨 The Pacific Dream headed out in search of King... more » Chris Smith Pacific Dream
8-1-2026	Salmon trolling 🎣🐟 SALMON OPENER SUCCESS! 🐟🎣 At Happy Hooker Sport Fishing and Fishing Vessel Pacific Dream, we wrapped up the second day... more » Chris Smith Pacific Dream