South Saltwater Fish Report
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UPDATED: Jan. 30, 2025
LONG BEACH/SAN PEDRO — Both Long Beach Sportfishing and Pierpoint landing put out dab trips resulting in better than 100 fish per angler. Other local runs fished whitefish and sculpin and saw results near 10 per rod on those OWFs and 5-fish limits around on the red devils too. Nevertheless runs ran with light loads. The Native Sun at 22nd Street Landing put effort into those local halibut out front of Angel’s Gate with success. Their top day recently put 11 keepers and 7 shakers on the lines for 17 anglers. There have been numbers of sand bass in the mix fishing those grounds too. Lobster hoopers out of L.A. Waterfront picked of bugs nightly, steady but a bit down from the epic results of those big surf days a couple of weeks back.
ORANGE COUNTY — Capt. Brian Woolley reported for Dana Wharf Sportfishing “Half-day trips have been in the shallows targeting both calico bass and sand bass. Catch and release on some sheephead has been decent as well. Water temps dipped a bit and we saw 54°-56° this week. Live anchovy fished on a dropper loop type of rig fished best. Out deeper the ¾-day anglers had plenty of sculpin, whitefish and sand dabs. Rubber lures were again the best bet for the sculpin. Pretty much a status quo week with not much change from the last couple weeks. On the halibut front still seeing a few keepers every week form both the drift trips and on the open part trips. Lots of short fish.
SAN DIEGO — First local bluefin boated aboard the Old Glory, one of a handful hooked in the dark just 70 miles south of the dock. The rest were too big to boat apparently, and all escaped. 1.5-day runs to the Colonet high spots saw yellows but didn’t get them to bite, but did hang a bunch of big bonito as well as full bags of reds, other rockfish and lings. Local ½-day action rolled on with a few sandies, whitefish and sculpin to show for their efforts. The long range fleet was where the action was at. Over the weekend those boats turned and burned to get back out for their longest runs of the year. Dockside there were yellowfin into the 280-pound range, lots of cows, 200-pound class donkeys.
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