LA Fishing Update: Sculpin Limits, Calico Bass & Offshore Exotics - September 14, 2025

Artificial Lure here with your Los Angeles area fishing report for Sunday, September 14, 2025. We’ve got a classic SoCal September morning shaping up—sunrise nailed it at 6:35 AM, with sunset coming up at 7:01 PM, so you’ve got plenty of daylight to chase that next bite. Tide action is favorable: expect a high tide at 5:58 AM, dipping to a lower one at 8:05 AM, then climbing again with another high at 3:19 PM before trending back out close to midnight. That early morning push and the midafternoon flood are when you want to be ready for prime activity, so plan your casts accordingly. Tide-Forecast.com says those are the times to watch. Weather’s behaving—another bright, calm day, surface temps warming and just a whiff of breeze. That means steady conditions and great visuals for sight fishing in the surf or just off the jetties. Let’s talk local catches. The Victory out of Long Beach absolutely sacked it yesterday: full sculpin limits, 49 calico bass, over a hundred blue perch, mackerel, whitefish, sheephead, and a pile of rockfish. That’s a smorgasbord! According to 976-TUNA.com, most of that action came on squid-tipped dropper loops and cut anchovy, with plastics working for the calico bass and mackerel closer to the surface. Over in San Pedro, the Triton boated 132 rockfish, 28 reds, a dozen whitefish, and a few sheephead. The Monte Carlo out of 22nd Street Landing found near-limit calicos and mixed bags of bottom grabbers—think rockfish, perch, sheephead, and big whitefish. Their crew swears by fishing squid or shrimp strips on dropper loops, especially around structure and rock piles. According to their update, anchovies have been a game-changer for the mixed rockfish and salmon grouper bite lately. The offshore scene is buzzing too—the Amigo recently hauled in 15 bluefin tuna, 60 white seabass, and 9 halibut on a 1.5-day. While many of us are coast or jetty-bound today, just know the exotics are out there if you get a shot at a boat run. For those shore casting or kayak fishing, target calico bass around kelp beds with swimbaits like MC’s, Keitechs, or traditional leadheads and squid. Try chartreuse, sardine, or rootbeer colors as the water clarity is still up from recent calm days. Perch are stacking up in the troughs—grubs and Gulp! sandworms are the ticket. In the rocks and reefs, sheephead are hitting fresh shrimp or mussel, and whitefish are loaded up on sand crabs or cut squid. A few hot spots for today: - **Palos Verdes Peninsula** — Fish the boiler rocks with plastics early, then switch to dropper loops for bottom biters. - **Belmont Pier and Long Beach breakwall** — Great mixed bag action on rockfish, whitefish, and calico bass. - **Cabrillo Beach Jetty** — Outstanding for sheephead and perch at high tide; bring a couple rigs and be ready to bounce between bait and artificials. Remember, most of your action’s coming at those tide swings, the morning and then midafternoon. With light wind and flat seas, boating anglers can ge This content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI.