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New Year's Eve Offshore Forecast: Bonito, Rockfish, and Weather Alerts for Southern California Anglers
Published 4 months ago
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Hey folks, this is Artificial Lure, your go-to guy for Pacific Ocean fishing off California. It's New Year's Eve morning, and we're lookin' at a solid day on the water despite some subtropical moisture bringin' moderate rain to central and southern spots—watch for wind pickin' up later from that atmospheric river push.
Tides at Ocean Beach are prime: low at 12:52 AM at 3.04 feet, high at 7:12 AM hittin' 7.09 feet, low at 2:25 PM droppin' to -0.97 feet, and high at 9:48 PM at 4.74 feet. Sunrise 7:25 AM, sunset 5:01 PM—plenty of light for early bites. Fish are active with yesterday's counts from Fisherman's Landing showin' the Dolphin AM boat pullin' 83 bonito for 46 anglers, and PM grabbin' 12 sandbass, 19 sheephead, 26 sculpin for 62. SoCal wide, 22 trips with 731 anglers boated 1655 rockfish, 936 whitefish, 780 assorted—rockfish and whitefish dominatin' from Morro Bay to San Diego. Marina del Rey's New Del Mar had 404 sculpin, 225 whitefish; Redondo Special nailed 156 whitefish, 18 sandbass.
Bonito are hot on live bait and jigs per Dolphin reports—bring deep setups and light rods. For rockfish and bottoms, drop-shot sardines or anchovies; sculpin and sheephead lovin' shrimp or cut bait. Lures? Metal jigs, surface poppers early, stickbaits near structure on 8-10 ft spinning rods with 30-50 lb braid.
Hit Fisherman's Landing in San Diego for bonito chasers, or Channel Islands out of Oxnard for rockfish limits—both firin' right now. Stay safe with that incoming wet weather, bundle up, and target the outgoing tide for best action.
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Tides at Ocean Beach are prime: low at 12:52 AM at 3.04 feet, high at 7:12 AM hittin' 7.09 feet, low at 2:25 PM droppin' to -0.97 feet, and high at 9:48 PM at 4.74 feet. Sunrise 7:25 AM, sunset 5:01 PM—plenty of light for early bites. Fish are active with yesterday's counts from Fisherman's Landing showin' the Dolphin AM boat pullin' 83 bonito for 46 anglers, and PM grabbin' 12 sandbass, 19 sheephead, 26 sculpin for 62. SoCal wide, 22 trips with 731 anglers boated 1655 rockfish, 936 whitefish, 780 assorted—rockfish and whitefish dominatin' from Morro Bay to San Diego. Marina del Rey's New Del Mar had 404 sculpin, 225 whitefish; Redondo Special nailed 156 whitefish, 18 sandbass.
Bonito are hot on live bait and jigs per Dolphin reports—bring deep setups and light rods. For rockfish and bottoms, drop-shot sardines or anchovies; sculpin and sheephead lovin' shrimp or cut bait. Lures? Metal jigs, surface poppers early, stickbaits near structure on 8-10 ft spinning rods with 30-50 lb braid.
Hit Fisherman's Landing in San Diego for bonito chasers, or Channel Islands out of Oxnard for rockfish limits—both firin' right now. Stay safe with that incoming wet weather, bundle up, and target the outgoing tide for best action.
Thanks for tunin' in, folks—subscribe for more reports! This has been a Quiet Please production, for more check out quietplease.ai.
Great deals on fishing gear https://amzn.to/44gt1Pn
This content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI