Long Beach Light
33.72°N · 118.19°W
Long Beach Light Fishing Forecast
Updated today
What's biting now around Long Beach: Kelp Bass
Kelp Bass fishing at Long Beach Light looks good today.
The best time to go is 9 AM to 2 PM, with the tide flooding.
ReelCaster scores every hour at Long Beach Light from 0 to 100, reading the tide, current, wind and weather for Kelp Bass. The higher the score, the better your odds. Green means go.
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Species
Now 76 · 11 AM PDT
Sheephead, bonito and sand bass at Long Beach Light lately
14-Day Forecast
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Current regulations
In effect nowWhat you can keep at this spot today
- Daily limit
- 5 per day
- Possession
- 5 in possession
- Size
- Minimum 14"
- Annual quota
- Not published
- Other
- Paralabrax species. Open year-round. Daily bag and possession limit is 5 fish in any combination of kelp bass, barred sand bass, and spotted sand bass, except no more than 4 barred sand bass may be taken. Minimum size 14 inches total length or 10 inches alternate length.
Source: CDFW · Groundfish Management Area Southern · synced today
Seasonality
52-week view · today highlightedWhen Kelp Bass is best at this spot
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About Long Beach Light
Long Beach Light is an outer-exposed rocky pinnacle off Long Beach, California, rising through depths of 40 to 120 feet. The structure holds California Halibut, which peak from March through May, alongside Lingcod that turn on from September into January and Barred Sand Bass that concentrate from May through July. California Sheephead work the rock in two windows, March through April and again July through September. Anglers targeting halibut drift live anchovies, sardines, or smelt across the sand-and-rock edges, while lingcod respond to vertical jigging with heavy iron jigs and swimbaits worked over the pinnacle itself. Sheephead come from bottom fishing squid strips and live shrimp tight to the rock, and sand bass fall to drift fishing with anchovies and squid strips across the deeper structure.
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