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UPDATED: June 4, 2026

LONG BEACH/SAN PEDRO — The local scene edged back into bottom biter territory as local waters cooled back to more seasonable levels. The Victory out of Long Beach turned in big numbers of rockfish and whitefish, anglers getting 12 to 15 fish each on ¾-day. Out of 22^nd Street Landing the story was similar for the local fishing, except the twilight runs on the Native Sun saw scratched some fair numbers of sand bass together as well. For the most part double droppers and squid strips kind of fishing. Catalina island fishing has lit off  however, more yellows, bonito and still good bassing. The grade on the yellowtail is mossback with some firecrackers in the kelps inshore. Mostly fly-lined sardines on 30-pound or better, but there were a few taken on the surface iron and yo-yo too. Overnight runs hit up San Clemente for good bottom biters but the buzz was yellowtail and excellent calico bass bite on the larger fish.

ORANGE COUNTY —  Here’s Captain Brian Woolley’s report for Dana Wharf Sportfishing: “Another solid week of both local and island fishing. Water temps did fluctuate a bit with a few days of 65-67° and a few recent days in the 62°-65°. Along the coast the 1/2 day guys fared well on the bass and sheephead.  Surface action for the calico bass remained strong with some nice ones around the kelp spots and some hard bottom areas.  Flyline baits  earlier in the week made for some  fun fishing. Had large bait at the end of the week so the stripped sardine and cut baits got the bites.  A few opting for the artificial baits did well.  Swim baits, flukes A-rigs and surface iron all caught fish this week. Some nice sheephead this week too on the exotic baits like shrimp and clam. A few more halibut in the mix too 7-10lb fish for the 1/2 day guys. Out deep the 14-Mile Bank continues to be lights-out good -doubles on the big bankies and chilies for the bait anglers.  Jig fisherman smashed ‘em as well on the 250g-300g jigs.  Jigs in the Chromes, blues and pinks were the most productive for sure.  A few days the ¾-day anglers got the job done early out deep and then slid into the beach to wrap the day up fishing bass.  The Fury fished a few days at San Clemente Island and the surface fishing for calico bass was still very good.  Flylined sardines and rubber lures were the hot deal -some surface iron fish too.  Sinker fisherman had all the whitefish and sheephead you could want. There was some yellowtail opportunities there as well.  They had 15 fish the other day – smaller grade, 8 to 10 pounds, along a stretch of kelp -some bonito on the shiny jigs as well.”

Out of Newport Bay the local sculpin bite was full-speed, so full speed it appeared the ¾-day runs were hitting it up before continuing on to Catalina for a few bass, bonito and shots at a yellowtail or two. The Thunderbird found great fishing at San Clemente, most recently returning with 12 yellowtail on deck plus limit-style bass fishing, plenty of bonito, whitefish, rockfish and such too. The Patriot had 9 yellow at the near island Sunday as well.

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