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LA Fishing Report: Bottom Feeders Bite, Tides and Weather Favor Inshore and Offshore Action
Artificial Lure here with your Los Angeles angling report for Sunday, October 12, 2025.
Sunrise touched down around 6:56 AM and sunset will roll in at 6:26 PM, so you’ve got solid fishing windows to work with today. Weather’s sitting pretty this morning: expect clear skies, calm winds at about 3–4 mph, and temps climbing from the low 60s into the upper 70s by afternoon, according to Time and Date. That means comfortable conditions for both inshore and offshore action. Heads up that a cool-down and rain are coming later in the week, with a true winter storm look pushing in Monday night through Tuesday as forecast by News Channel 3-12 and the LA Times—so fish now, worry about puddles later.
Tidewise, the water is falling early, low tide landing late morning, with the next high starting early afternoon based on charts for local harbors. That sets up a moving tide for the bulk of the day, which usually means active fish, especially when you’re working structure or kelp lines.
Let’s talk catch reports. Local boats have been stuffing the sacks: 22nd Street Landing reported nearly 150 calico bass just yesterday, along with boatloads of rockfish, sanddab, whitefish, halibut, and sculpin. Monte Carlo’s AM and PM half-day trips loaded up on rockfish, sanddab, and whitefish, with a smattering of sculpin. Native Sun bagged 13 halibut and a good bunch of whitefish, calico bass, bonito, and sheephead. Out of Long Beach, Victory got limits of sculpin, 49 calico bass, blue perch, mackerel, and a healthy catch of sheephead and rockfish. Amigo’s 1.5-day trip just put 60 fat white seabass, 15 bluefin, nine halibut, and a yellowtail on the deck.
October is prime time for bottom fishing, and today is no exception. **Rockfish** and **whitefish** are thick—drift fresh-cut squid or shrimp on a dropper loop over rocky bottom. **Calico bass** are chewing hard around kelp edges and stones; Fish deep with plastics like MC Swimbaits and hookup baits in olive or brown or run a live sardine if you can score one at the bait barge. Sculpin and sand bass are biting well too—use squid strips, especially around rock piles and ledges. If you want bigger game, there’s still a shot at halibut, sheephead, and even a stray white seabass using live mackerel on the drift.
For surface chasers, bonito and the occasional yellowtail are in the mix, especially if you’re tossing Chrome Kastmasters or trolled feathers early. Tuna have slowed with water cooling, but if you’re offshore, bring heavy gear and iron—last week delivered 56 bluefin in 1.5-day charters.
Hot spots: Right now, **Point Fermin** and the kelp beds off **Palos Verdes** are producing quality calicos and whitefish. The wrecks and hard bottom off **Santa Monica Bay**, especially accessed from Marina Del Rey, are loaded with rockfish and the occasional lingcod. Halibut and sand bass are biting well from the channel edges outside Cabrillo Beach.
Bait tip: **Fresh squid and live sardines** are gold right now for multispecies action. For plastics, olive, brown, and baitfish colors on lead heads are taking calicos and sand bass. Sheephead are hammering cut shrimp or mussel around rocky spots. If you’re fly-lining baits, use 15–20lb test and size 2 hooks for best results.
Fish are active and the weather is sweet, but keep your eye on the horizon—early week storms could put a damper on some locations, especially low-lying coastal spots. If you’re fishing Monday, pack the rain gear.
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