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LA Fishing Report: Rockfish, Seabass, Tuna Bite Strong as Seasonal Transition Continues
This is Artificial Lure and here’s your Los Angeles fishing report for Wednesday, September 17th, 2025.
We’ve got a nice mix of summer and fall conditions on tap. Sunrise hit at 6:38am and sunset is coming up at 6:56pm. Right now, morning weather is ideal for the serious angler—expect mostly cloudy skies early, light winds turning gentle by noon, highs cresting near 74°F. The water’s still around 70 degrees, perfect for a push of inshore and offshore species.
Tides are moving just right for early birds and evening prowlers. Low tide happened at 1:30am, rising fast up to a solid 4.48 feet around 8:13am. Next, a midday pullback at 1:12pm (2.45 feet), then a healthy high at 7:08pm topping out at 5.9 feet, setting up great structure and current for evening bites—especially off rocky points and beach drop-offs.
Fish activity has been awesome all week. The boats out of 22nd Street Landing in San Pedro brought big mixed bags. Just two days ago, the Amigo cracked limits of rockfish (61), plus a whopping 48 white seabass—a hard-fighting local favorite—plus barracuda, sheephead, and halibut. The Freedom is red hot on tuna, locking in 66 bluefin for 33 anglers. Monte Carlo landed 89 salmon grouper, 33 rockfish, and a handful of sheephead, sculpin, and reds. Pursuit delivered monster counts: 152 rockfish, 77 whitefish, 36 calico bass, 25 bonito, plus a few blue perch, barracuda, and halibut. Overall, dock totals are loaded with action—rockfish, salmon grouper, calicos, and bluefin mixing in every haul according to the crews at 22nd Street Landing.
If you’re chasing numbers, keep it simple: best baits this week are still the classic squid strips for bottom fish. White seabass are coming on fresh dead squid or live ‘dines. For calicos and sand bass, swimbaits and plastics in natural colors like brown or olive are fishing well, especially with pearl trailers. Early and late bites favor surface iron—try mint/purple jigs or small spoons for bonito and barracuda when the light’s low. Tuna chasers should pull out the blue and white feathers, or toss a slow-trolled popper if things get splashy.
For the lure nuts, a tube jig rigged with a jighead—like a Strike King Coffee Tube style—mimics small squid and gobies, working especially well off rocky reefs and kelp pockets. It’s deadly for calicos and sheephead by sight casting on clear mornings.
Hot spots today:
- **San Pedro breakwall** — still producing white seabass, calico bass, and sheephead on the inside.
- **Palos Verdes Peninsula** — rocky points holding rockfish and lingcod on deeper drops.
- **Redondo Beach Pier** — solid for late-day bonito, mackerel, and the stray halibut.
Remember, bluefin are still pushing locally—just offshore is prime for trolling feathers or casting live sardines around paddies and deep structure.
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