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UPDATED: July 2, 2025

LONG BEACH/SAN PEDRO — Bill Waddle on the Options out of Pierpoint Landing sent in some awesome sea bass and yellows photos, and the following report. “Left Thursday night on a two day. I got this fish early on day one but blanked the rest of the day. My buddies carried out the trifecta putting in multiple sea bass and a nice halibut. We were on the same spot for 18 hours. I woke up at 3:30 a.m. on day two and got my limit of three sea bass. More fish for my buddies too.” The big news was the volume of sand bass now out on the local flats areas, and hard spots too. They are very active and biting hard, best we’ve seen since 2004 or so. It’s all on areas with schools of mature anchovies, and its wide-open limits fishing, small heavy iron, swim baits, live anchovy, you name it. Take the kids fishing, folks that have never been. Short distances, shallow waters and biting fish. 

ORANGE COUNTY — More of what’s happening all along the coast, sand bass, calicos too. Capt. Brian Woolley at Dana Wharf Sportfishing reports “The excellent bass fishing continues this week. Water temps hovered between 70-71 this week. That warm water has the calico bass fired up over the hard bottom and in the kelp. Light line approaches , no 2 hooks and a hand full of assorted sliding egg sinkers has been all you’ve needed to catch some nice bass. Swim baits , hard jerk baits and surface iron catching some nice calico bass too. Sand bass action still good as well. A day or two we fished up the coast in the mud and classic summer style sand bass fishing. Flurries of 7-10 fish going at a time. Really nice quality fish and rubber lures and reverse dropper loops were the best bet. Still seeing plenty of halibut in our counts as well. Areas below San Mateo point and down through San Onofre have been the hot zones. The Dana Pride had 8 halibut for their day yesterday so definitely worth soaking a bait. Over at Clemente the Fury had more great fishing. Calico bass are biting well in the kelp. Outside the kelp a bit the bonito fishing is great and guys wanting to fish the sinker set ups are catching sheephead , whitefish and rockfish. The yellowtail action at the island has been day to day. Fury had some fish mid week 8-20 pounds.”

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