Relaxing afternoon at Bean Hollow

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17 Jan 2026

The waves were calm today and there was a decent low tide in the afternoon (0.5), so I decided to take the opportunity to hit up Bean Hollow State Beach again. I was feeling lazy so I mainly stuck with bait — today the name of the game was squid. I ended up landing a baby cabezon, a pan-sized black rockfish and a decent black-and-yellow rockfish. Fairly decent catches given how many fish I usually catch these days from the San Mateo coastline…

Small black rockfish	A decent black-and-yellow

As we were leaving at sunset, we ran into a ranger who checked our licenses and catches. He mentioned that everyone else he had checked that day had not done as well as us. A nice ego booster :)

Check out our fishing guide for this spot.