Los Trancos Canyon
33.57°N · 117.84°W
Los Trancos Canyon Fishing Forecast
Updated today
Kelp Bass fishing at Los Trancos Canyon looks good today.
The best time to go is 9 AM to 6 PM, with the tide flooding.
ReelCaster scores every hour at Los Trancos Canyon 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 79 · 11 AM PDT
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
SPOT PROFILE
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About Los Trancos Canyon
Los Trancos Canyon sits off Newport Beach as an outer-exposed rocky drop-off, falling through depths of 60 to 300 feet where structure concentrates fish along its edges. Barred Sand Bass peak from May through July and respond to drift fishing with live anchovies, live sardines, or squid strips, while Calico Bass hold from April through August and take plastic swimbaits worked across the rock. California Halibut move through in spring, peaking March through May, and are worked with drifted live bait such as anchovies, sardines, or queenfish along the shallower reaches of the slope. Leopard Shark show from June through August and hold near the bottom, where squid, mackerel, and market shrimp produce, and the deeper rock draws Lingcod from September through January on vertical jigs and heavy iron. Bonito, Barracuda, and Yellowfin tuna work the exposed water above the canyon through the warmer months.
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