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Updated Sept. 24, 2024

San Nicolas Is. — This island was good for windy weather, beaucoup bottom bagging and secret seabass bites.

Santa Barbara Is. — Here the story was much as San Nic, with not so much bottom biters and windy days plus a bit more on the secret seabass and halibut opportunities. However, tuna were just off the island, Osborn Bank, This is a be careful place, for the Marine Protected area on its Southeast corner and the Groundfish Exclusion Area a few miles west. While the Osborn is closed for bottom biters in September, it opens in October. But, nearshore complex rockfish will be off limits and have to be released. If you don’t know the coordinates or which fish are nearshore complex, just stay away from having rockfish or lings aboard.

Navy ops closure map/schedule at: http://www.scisland.org/schedules/safetyZoneUse/days/12.html   Navy island info links and kite regs: http://www.scisland.org/

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