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UPDATED: August 13, 2026

SANTA BARBARA — Great bottom fishing for the party boats out of Santa Barbara Landing continued. They also had limits of lings and nearly so for all anglers Sunday. In local waters the private boaters had it all and there was great bonito fishing now, in addition to the local calico bite

VENTURA/OXNARD — Local island fishing for seabass continued to provide action, but the calico bass snap was full speed at the local island and a fair number of yellowtail added to the action along with barracuda and loads of whitefish on demand. More than that not far south of the islands both dorado and a few tuna have made the local scene in recent days.

SANTA MONICA BAY — While the biggest numbers in the local partyboat catches continued to be whitefish and rockfish, the bass are biting well and yellowtail are in the Bay now. The blue waters have made live bait getting a challenge here as they have coast wide.

LONG BEACH/SAN PEDRO — In recent days the barracuda bite has been excellent but dropped over the weekend. It’s all about the iron, as bait has been scarce and tends to be small anchovies. Recent supplies of squid tappered too. Nevertheless the calico counts over the most recent weekend were excellent and there are a a lot of local yellowtail roaming around.

ORANGE COUNTY — Local bonito bite was excellent but over the weekend yellowtail bit hard and Dana Wharf Sportfishing’s combined score was 123 of the fork-tails, nice ones, teens to 20-plus pounds mostly. Waters were in the high 70s. Calicos were on the bite but as usual, mostly released.

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