Will Rogers State Beach (South End)
34.03°N · 118.52°W
Will Rogers State Beach (South End) Fishing Forecast
Updated today
What's biting now around Santa Monica: Barred Sand Bass
Barred Sand Bass fishing at Will Rogers State Beach (South End) looks good today.
The best time to go is 7 AM to 7 PM, with the tide flooding.
ReelCaster scores every hour at Will Rogers State Beach (South End) 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
- Reached from paid parking lots along Pacific Coast Highway just north of the Santa Monica city line; short walk across sand to the surf. Fish the outgoing tide for halibut.
- HOW IT'S FISHED
- Surf casting with live sand crab
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About Will Rogers State Beach (South End)
Will Rogers State Beach (South End) is an open sand beach fronting Santa Monica Bay, where the shoreline slopes into soft-bottom habitat rather than reef or rock. California Halibut are the primary target, peaking from March through July, with Barred Sand Bass moving in around March and again from June through August. Drift fishing carries both species here, presenting live anchovies, live sardines, or live smelt across the sandy flats for halibut and swapping to plastic swimbaits when sand bass are holding. Anglers also work the same water with jigging, running leadhead swimbaits, soft plastics, or metal jigs along the bottom contour. The sandy, structureless nature of the beach means covering ground on the drift produces more than sitting in one place.
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