South Saltwater Fish Report
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UPDATED: March 15, 2025
LONG BEACH/SAN PEDRO — Both local and Catalina Island runs returned with lots of bottom biters, rockfish some sculpin, sometimes a lot sculpin on the coast. The Victory turned in 250 rockfish and 125 sculpin for 25 folks which is boat limits on both Saturday. Sunday saw similar averages with 33 anglers aboard. Tapping Catalina Islands waters the Pursuit saw anglers pick up near boat limits on rockfish but also add a variety of other species, a halibut or two, a bass or two, sheephead a few whitefish, like that. Friday they had 5 nice halibut on deck. Before the west winds came the overnight runs, especially the 6-pack boats looking for seabass found them and sometimes found big halibut instead. The top fish we heard about was a 56.4-pound halibut out of 22nd Street. There was a bit of twilight bassing to boot, 50-some keepers on one run
ORANGE COUNTY — Mixed magic here in recent days with the Newport local boats finding full limits of sculpin like it was simple, and adding some rockfish. Capt. Brian Woolley provided the following report for his landing at Dana Wharf Sportfishng. “Water temps in the 60° – 62° range this week. Half-day stuff perked up a bit with some fly-line calico bass action a few days. Live anchovies and sardine was our bait mix this week , the anchovies for sure fished best on the lighter line.
The rockfish on the 14 Mile Bank bit well this week. Mild conditions and almost perfect drifts made it pretty easy to get lines to the fish in 600-700 feet of water. We saw real nice quality on the rockfish with solid mixed bags of Florida’s, bocaccio and chilis. Double dropper loops with a 16-ounce sinker made things easy, and the jig anglers had zero problems getting to the zone with 250- 350-gram jigs. (8-12 ounces)
The Fury fished Clemente (Island) this week a couple days. More great rockfish for his anglers, big reds and grouper. More bonito action in the shallows along with plenty of whitefish and sheephead. They did see a little yellowtail signal in a little area and had one fish smaller 15 lb fish but it’s a start.
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