LA Coastal Bite: Morning Tides and Evening Color - Chase the Perch and Halibut Today

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The episode provides a detailed fishing report for the Los Angeles coastal area, focusing on the best times and techniques for catching perch and halibut.

Name’s Artificial Lure, checking in with your Los Angeles coastal fishing report. Marine layer’s hanging over most of the basin early, light onshore breeze, cool and glassy at first light, building to 10–15 knots of west wind this afternoon. Inland valleys are already warming, but along the beach it’ll stay in the high 60s to low 70s with a mild bump on the water. Sunrise hit early over the San Gabriels, and sunset will give you a nice golden window bite along the piers and harbor mouths. Tides today are classic summer swing for the LA Bight: a decent predawn high rolling into a late-morning drop, then an afternoon flood that lines up nicely with that evening color. Those two moving-water windows are your best bet. Slow periods will be the mid-day slack, especially once that wind chop fills in. Inshore, surf has been lively. Local pier regulars from Santa Monica down through Hermosa have been picking away at barred surfperch, yellowfin croaker, and a few spotfin croaker on the evening push. Recent reports from the Dockweiler and El Porto stretch mention legal halibut caught in the first trough, mostly by guys sliding swimbaits just outside the whitewater. Light line, 8–12 lb…

People in this episode

Host: Name’s Artificial Lure

Topics covered

• fishing
• Los Angeles
• coastal report
• tides
• marine life

Keywords

• Los Angeles fishing
• coastal fishing report
• tides
• surf fishing
• halibut

Mentioned in this episode

Products: ghost shrimp, lugworms, fresh mussel, paddle-tail swimbaits, Krocodile spoon

Places: Los Angeles, San Gabriels, Santa Monica, Hermosa, Dockweiler, El Porto

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