LA Fishing Report: Summer Bite Heats Up with Hot Spots, Tides & Favorite Lures

Artificial Lure here with your Los Angeles area fishing report for August 6, 2025. Warm summer air, clear skies, and a favorable tide cycle have anglers hitting the local landings and piers early and staying late—let’s break down today’s bite.

Today’s sunrise came at 6:09 AM with sunset at 7:47 PM. Anglers got the advantage of great morning and evening light bites. Weather at the Port of Los Angeles has been classic SoCal: coastal cloud cover at just 1%, temps holding steady between 56 and 64 degrees, mild humidity around 78%, and light winds about 9 mph. Water temperature right at the dock is in the low 60s—prime for targeting summer species.

On the tides, this morning brought a low at 2:55 AM and a solid high at 9:38 AM, peaking near 4 feet. Afternoon slack came with a gentle low at 1:49 PM and another high coming in strong just before 9 PM, topping 6 feet according to Tide-Forecast.com. That wide tide swing lit up the inshore zones for the first and last couple hours of the day, pushing bait and triggering flurries of predator activity.

Let’s get to the fish counts and hot spots. The New Del Mar out of Marina del Rey returned from a half day with 83 anglers boating one sheephead, 8 sand bass, 4 calicos, a whopping 202 sculpin, and 75 whitefish. Rockfish action has also been impressive—976-TUNA reports over 1200 rockfish and more than 500 sand bass landed yesterday across 31 trips in local waters. Out of 22nd Street Landing, Freedom Crew checked in with a mixed catch: white seabass, halibut, and even a nice yellowtail hitting the deck. And folks putting in time at the breakwalls have seen spurts of legal calico bass and the odd short seabass.

Best lures today have been the classics for SoCal summer—try clear or brown swimbaits on leadheads tossed tight to structure for bass. Channel drop-offs and bait schools have the sand bass fired up for yellow and chartreuse plastics. If you’re targeting bottom fish, you can’t go wrong with a sliding egg sinker rig and fresh squid strips for whitefish and sculpin. Rockfish are still chewing on cut mackerel and shrimp-tipped jigs.

As for top baits, live anchovies are king if you can get them, especially drifted for seabass or halibut. Fresh dead squid is a versatile backup and perfect for both drifting and anchoring on the reefs.

For hot spots, check out the sections of the Santa Monica Bay near the Venice Breakwater just after high tide—reports show mixed bags of bass and the occasional yellowtail. Cabrillo Breakwater and the kelp lines near Palos Verdes are producing rockfish, sculpin, and seabass if you’re willing to move around and prospect. Early morning around the Marina Del Rey rock piles and the Redondo Artificial Reef have also been reliably productive.

In short: the summer bite is in full swing, tides are helping, and the fish are there if you put in your time. Don’t forget: light fluorocarbon leaders as the water is clear, and bring plenty of bait—action can be fast when the tide swings!

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Artificial lore. Here with your Los Angeles area fishing report
for August sixth, twenty twenty five. Warm summer air, clear skies,
and a favorable todd cycle have anglers hitting the local
landings and piers early and staying late. Let's break down
today's bite. Today's sunrise came at six point nine am,
with sunset at seven forty seven pm. Anglers got the

(00:23):
advantage of great morning and evening light bites. Weather at
the Port of Los Angeles has been classic so cow
coastal cloud cover at just one percent, temps holding study
between fifty six and sixty four degrees, mild humidity around
seventy eight percent, and light winds about nine miles per hour.
Water temperature right at the dock is in the low sixties,

(00:46):
prime for targeting summer species. On the tides, This morning
brought a low at two fifty five am and a
solid high at nine thirty eight am, peaking near four feet.
Afternoon slack came with a gentle low at one PM
and another high coming and strong just before nine PM,
topping six feet. According to tide dash forecast dot Com.

(01:09):
That wide tide swing lit up the inshore zones for
the first and last couple hours of the day, pushing
bait and triggering flurries of predator activity. Let's get to
the fish counts and hotspots. The new Delmar out of
Marina del Rey returned from a half day with eighty
three anglers boating one sheephead, eight sand bass, four calicos,

(01:30):
a wopping, two hundred two scopin and seventy five whitefish.
Rockfish action has also been impressive. Nine hundred seventy six
dash tun reports, over one thousand, two hundred rockfish and
more than five hundred sand bass landed yesterday across thirty
one trips in local waters out of twenty second street landing.
Freedom crew checked in with a mixed catch white sea bass,

(01:53):
halibit and even the nice yellowtail hitting the deck and
folks putting in time at the break walls have seen
spurts of league calico bass and the odd short sea bass.
Best lose today have been the classics for sokel summer,
try clear or brown swim baits on leadheads, toss tight
to structure for bass channel drop offs, and bait schools
have the sam bass fired up for yellow and chartreuse plastics.

(02:17):
If you're targeting bottomfish, you can't go wrong with a
sliding egg sinker rag in fresh squid strips for whitefish
and sculpin. Rockfish are still chewing on cut macro and
shrimp tip jigs. As for top baits, live anchovies are
king if you can get them, especially drifted for sea
bass or halibit. Fresh dead squid is a versatile backup

(02:37):
and perfect for both drifting and anchoring on the reefs.
For hotspots, check out the sections of the Santa Monica
Bay near the Venice breakwater just after high tide. Reports
show mixed bags of bass and the occasional yellowtail cabrillo.
Breakwater in the Kelp lines near Palos Vertice are producing rockfish,
scupin and sea bass if you're willing to move around

(02:59):
in prospect. Early morning around the Marina del Rey rock
piles and the Redondo Artificial Reef have also been reliably productive.
In short the summer bite is in full swing, tides
are helping, and the fish are there if you put
in your time. Don't forget light fluorocarbon liters, as the
water is clear and bring plenty of bait. Action can

(03:20):
be fast when the tide swings Thanks for tuning in
to your Los Angeles fish and rundown. Remember to subscribe
for your daily fix of coast to bay action. This
has been a quiet, please production. For more check out
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