Santa Monica Bay - 9-Mile Bank
33.81°N · 118.55°W
Santa Monica Bay - 9-Mile Bank Fishing Forecast
Updated today
What's biting now around Santa Monica: Kelp Bass
Kelp Bass fishing at Santa Monica Bay - 9-Mile Bank looks good today.
The best time to go is 1 PM to 7 PM, with the tide ebbing.
ReelCaster scores every hour at Santa Monica Bay - 9-Mile Bank 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 73 · 9 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
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About Santa Monica Bay - 9-Mile Bank
The 9-Mile Bank is an outer, exposed drop-off off Santa Monica, California, where a mixed bottom falls away through depths of roughly 300 to 1,200 feet. The structure holds Rockfish year-round and draws White Seabass and California Halibut from March through July, while Yellowtail run from May into October and Pacific Bonito show from May through September. Rockfish come off the deeper mixed bottom on a dropper loop baited with squid or cut mackerel, with vertical jigging over the same structure. Yellowtail take live sardines and mackerel along the bank edge, and White Seabass respond to live squid worked through the drop. For halibut, drifting live anchovies and sardines across the transition zones covers both the Pacific and California fish during their spring peaks.
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