Santa Monica State Beach (South / Ocean Park)
34.00°N · 118.49°W
Santa Monica State Beach (South / Ocean Park) Fishing Forecast
Updated today
What's biting now around Santa Monica: Barred Sand Bass
Barred Sand Bass fishing at Santa Monica State Beach (South / Ocean Park) looks good today.
The best time to go is 7 AM to 7 PM, with the tide flooding.
ReelCaster scores every hour at Santa Monica State Beach (South / Ocean Park) from 0 to 100, reading the tide, current, wind and weather for Barred Sand Bass. The higher the score, the better your odds. Green means go.
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Species
14-Day Forecast
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Why this score
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 Barred Sand Bass is best at this spot
SHORE PROFILE
- GETTING THERE
- Access from beach lots off Barnard Way and the Ocean Park neighborhood; flat walk over sand to the wash zone. Fish troughs and cuts along the beach.
- HOW IT'S FISHED
- Surf casting with soft plastic swimbaits
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About Santa Monica State Beach (South / Ocean Park)
Santa Monica State Beach at the South and Ocean Park section is an open sand beach along the Santa Monica coastline, marked by shifting sandy bottom rather than hard structure. California Halibut hold here through the spring and early summer with a peak from March to July, joined by Barred Sand Bass that run strong in March and again from June through August. Pacific Bonito move along the surf and nearshore water from May to September. Anglers work the halibut by drift fishing live anchovies, sardines, or smelt across the sand, and cover the same water for sand bass with drifted plastic swimbaits or live baits. When bonito school up, live bait chumming with anchovies and sardines pulls them in close, and casting metal jigs or surface irons reaches fish holding farther off the beach.
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