SoCal Fishing Report August 8 2025 - Hot Bites, Tidal Trends, and Lure Tips for LA Anglers

This is Artificial Lure with your Los Angeles area fishing report for Friday, August 8, 2025.

Sunrise hit at 6:07AM and sunset’s rolling in at 7:49PM, and we've got over 13 hours of daylight—plenty of time to chase that big bite. Weather is looking fair today, classic SoCal summer with mild morning temps in the high 60s, warming up to low 80s inland by mid-afternoon. Light west winds are forecast; expect a gentle onshore breeze and moderate ocean chop.

Tides today in Long Beach are shaping up for some solid fishing windows. First low tide came early at 3:29AM, first high tide peaks at 10:01AM, followed by a mid-day low at 2:29PM, then a beefy evening high around 8PM. According to Tides4Fishing, we’ve got a tidal coefficient pushing 70 and climbing to 80 by nightfall, so expect stronger currents and a lively bite, especially at the edges of the tides.

Fish activity is good across the board, with a hot bite on structure and around kelp for bottom species. Long Beach sport boats yesterday reported solid counts: Victory tallied 37 Sand Bass, 250 Sculpin, and nearly 70 Rockfish, while El Patron brought in a nice mix of 22 Sheephead, 12 Calico Bass, 2 Yellowtail, and over 120 Whitefish. Monte Carlo out of San Pedro weighed in 36 Calico Bass and 6 Sheephead—those calicos are chewin’ hard on plastics and the sheephead are fattened up on shellfish bits.

Freshwater anglers around the L.A. lakes are working for bass tucked tight to structure. Most bites are coming on slow-fished dark plastics and creature baits near rocks and weedy edges, particularly at dawn. Catfish are good with cut makrel, chicken liver, and nightcrawlers—try the deeper holes after sunset for a chunky channel cat.

For saltwater, the best lures are swimbaits in olive or brown, and big plastics tipped with squid for rockfish, whitefish, and lingcod. If you’re throwing hardware, try a Rapala Xrap 14 in natural foil for kingfish or jetty yellowtail, ripping it fast to trigger a chase. Surface iron (Tady 45, Salas 7X in blue/white) are landing barracuda and yellowtail on the reefs and outside kelp beds. Don’t overlook bait—frozen squid works for everything from calico to rockfish, and live sardines or anchovies are killer for bigger game if you can pick them up at the bait barge.

Hot spots this morning:
- The Horseshoe Kelp and oil rigs off Long Beach are holding sand bass and barracuda, especially on the afternoon tide swing.
- Cabrillo Beach jetty is prime for calico bass and sculpin; fish the moving water for your best bite.
- For freshwater, try Echo Park Lake early for bass and catfish, and El Dorado for bluegill and cats.

Notable mention: sheephead are showing up heavy around structure, so bring shrimp, clams, or cut squid if you want to target them specifically. Keep an eye on any algae advisories if you’re headed out to inland lakes—the bite can still be good, just fish deeper and tighter to cover.

Bring sunscreen, polarized glasses, hydrate, and remember—no hard liquor on the boat, keep it chill out there!

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is artificial lore. With your Los Angeles area fishing
report for Friday, August eighth, twenty twenty five. Sunrise hit
at six oh seven am and sunsets rolling in at
seven forty nine pm, and we've got over thirteen hours
of daylight, plenty of time to chase that big bite. Weather.
It's looking fair today, classic SoCal summer, with mild morning

(00:20):
tempts in the high sixties warming up to low eighties
in land by mid afternoon. Light west winds are forecast.
Expect a gentle onshore breeze and moderate ocean chop. Tides
today in Long Beach are shaping up for some solid
fishing windows. First low tide came early at three twenty
nine am. First high tide peaks at ten oh one am,
followed by a midday low at two twenty nine pm,

(00:42):
then a beefy evening high around eight pm. According to
Tides four Fishing, we've got a tidle coefficient pushing seventy
and climbing to eighty by nightfall, so expect stronger currents
and a lively bite, especially at the edges of the tides.
Fish activity is good across the board with a hot
bite on struck and around kelp for bottom species. Long

(01:03):
beach sport boats yesterday reported solid counts victory tally thirty
seven sand bass, two hundred and fifty sculpin, and nearly
seventy rockfish, while Al Patron brought in a nice mets
of twenty two sheephead, twelve calico bass, two yellowtail, and
over one hundred twenty whitefish. Monte Carlo out of San
Paedo weighed in thirty six calico bass and six sheephead.

(01:25):
Those calicos are chewing hard on plastics and the sheephead
are fattened up on shellfish bits. Freshwater anglers around the
La Lakes are working for bass tucked tight to structure.
Most bites are coming on SlowFish, dark plastics and creature
baits near rocks and weedy edges, particularly at dawn. Catfish
are good with cut makerel, chicken liver, and nightcrawlers. Try

(01:47):
the deeper holes after sunset for a chunky channel cat
For salt water, the best lores are swim baits and
all over brown and big plastics tipped with squid. For rockfish,
whitefish and lincot throwing hardware, try a ripolla x wrap
fourteen in natural foil for kingfish or jetty yellowtail, ripping
it fast to trigger a chase. Surface iron Tady forty five,

(02:11):
Salas seven X and blue white are landing barracuda and
yellowtail on the reefs and outside kelp beds. Don't overlook bait.
Frozen squid works for everything from calico to rockfish, and
live sardines or ankavis are killer for bigger game if
you can pick them up at the bait barge hotspots.
This morning, the horseshoe, kelp and oil rigs off Lawn

(02:33):
Beach are holding sand bass and barracuda, especially on the
afternoon tide swing. Cabrio Beach jetty is primed for calico
bass and sculpin fish the moving water for your best bite.
For fresh water, try Echo Park Lake early for bass
and catfish, and El Dorado for blue gill and cats.
Notable mention sheep head are showing up heavy around structure,

(02:56):
so bring shrimp, clams or cut squid if you want
to target them specific Keep an eye on any algae advisories.
If you're headed out to inland lakes, the bite can
still be good. Just fish deeper and tighter to cover,
bring sunscreen, polarized glasses, hydrate, and remember no hard like
her on the boat. Keep a chill out there. Thanks

(03:16):
for tuning in, and don't forget to subscribe to catch
every report. This has been a quiet please production. For
more check out Quiet please dot ai