Catalina Island - Isthmus (Cat Harbor)
33.44°N · 118.50°W
Now 25 · 10 PM PDT
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Current regulations
In effect nowWhat you can keep at this spot today
- Daily limit
- 10 per day
- Possession
- 10 in possession
- Size
- Minimum 24"
- Annual quota
- Not published
- Other
- Open year-round. Minimum size 24 inches fork length, except up to 5 fish less than 24 inches fork length may be taken or possessed.
Source: CDFW · Groundfish Management Area Southern · synced today
Seasonality
52-week view · today highlightedWhen Yellowtail is best at this spot
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Cat Harbor sits on the protected inner side of Catalina Island's Isthmus, a kelp reef over rocky bottom running from 20 to 60 feet within Santa Monica waters. Yellowtail draw anglers from May through October, worked on live sardines, mackerel, or anchovies, while White Seabass show from March into July and respond to live squid drifted along the structure. Calico Bass hold in the kelp and rock from April through August, taken on swimbaits and soft plastic grubs, and California Sheephead work the same bottom April through September on live shrimp, squid, or crab. Rockfish stay available year-round with a dropper loop of squid or cut mackerel, and Lingcod move in from September through February for vertical jigging with metal jigs and leadhead swimbaits. The sheltered exposure keeps the reef fishable when outer coasts are blown out, concentrating fish over the rock edges within the 20-to-60-foot range.
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