Bit Rock
33.80°N · 118.41°W
Bit Rock Fishing Forecast
Updated today
What's biting now around Santa Monica: Kelp Bass
Kelp Bass fishing at Bit Rock looks good today.
The best time to go is 12 PM to 6 PM, with the tide flooding.
ReelCaster scores every hour at Bit Rock 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 74 · 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 Bit Rock
Bit Rock is an outer-exposed sand flat off Santa Monica, California, sitting in 30 to 60 feet of water where open bottom holds a mix of gamefish through the year. Calico Bass, California Sheephead, and White Seabass all peak from late winter into spring, while Barred Sand Bass hold through a longer window from March into August and California Halibut run strong March through June. On the sand, drift fishing with live anchovies, live sardines, or swimbaits covers ground for halibut, and drift fishing with live anchovies, live squid, or frozen squid works the flat for barred sand bass. Calico bass respond to flylining live anchovies or sardines along any structure breaking up the sand, and leopard sharks, peaking February through April, come to bait soaked on the bottom with squid or mackerel chunks. White seabass move through on live squid, live sardines, or live mackerel drifted through the same depth range, with bonito and mackerel available as steady secondary targets.
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