El Segundo Flats
33.92°N · 118.46°W
El Segundo Flats Fishing Forecast
Updated today
What's biting now around Santa Monica: Kelp Bass
Kelp Bass fishing at El Segundo Flats looks good today.
The best time to go is 8 AM to 12 PM, with the tide flooding.
ReelCaster scores every hour at El Segundo Flats 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
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 El Segundo Flats
El Segundo Flats is an outer-exposed sand flat off Santa Monica, California, running 40 to 80 feet deep with an open, structureless bottom that fish work over on moving water. California Halibut anchor the season here, peaking March through July, and drift fishing across the sand with live anchovies, live sardines, or live smelt covers ground efficiently on the flat. Barred Sand Bass follow a similar pattern with peaks in March and again June through August, taking drifted live anchovies and sardines or plastic swimbaits. California Barracuda move through from April to September and respond to trolled tube lures, spoons, and swimbaits, while White Seabass hold from March to July on live squid, sardines, and mackerel. Leopard Shark (April through August) and Calico Bass (April through August) round out the mix, the sharks worked by soaking squid or mackerel on the bottom and the calico taken on swimbaits and soft plastic grubs.
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