"Late Fall Lakeshore Bite: LA Fishing Report for November 21, 2025"

Artificial Lure here, bringing you the November 21, 2025 Los Angeles area fishing report—let’s get right to it for your morning session. First up, that key info: **sunrise at 6:32 AM, sunset at 4:49 PM** according to Surfline’s Venice Beach tide calendar. The weather’s shaping up pleasant after some overnight mist—expect highs in the upper 60s by late morning, light offshore breezes, and only patchy clouds. The **tide schedule today** is classic for targeting inshore action. Low tide hits at 2:22 AM at 2.5 feet, transitioning to a solid high at 8:41 AM of 5.9 feet. The afternoon slack brings it down to -0.3 feet at 4:12 PM, then picks up again with a 3.4-foot high at 10:50 PM, based on Surfline's Venice Beach tide chart and confirmed by Tide-Forecast for the outer harbor. **Solunar theory rates today as an excellent bite day**—the hot windows look to be 6:38 to 8:38 AM and 6:53 to 8:53 PM, with a minor window around 1:42 to 3:42 PM, says FishingReminder. That means right off sunrise and into the late evening are your best bets for active fish. How’s the bite? **Recent catches off the surf and harbor walls point to great late-fall variety**. Locals off Santa Monica Bay and Venice Pier are hauling in barred surfperch, spotfin croaker, and yellowfin croaker on sand crabs and lugworms, with the odd halibut (sub-legal, but a few keepers reported on swimbaits around Marina del Rey). Harbor jetties have been steady on calico bass—Marina del Rey and King Harbor especially—with plastics in motor oil or chartreuse pulling bass out from the rocks. Don’t be surprised by a bonus sargo or sheephead if you drop fresh mussel down deeper. **Boats out of the San Pedro/Long Beach corridor** are picking at mixed rockfish, sheephead, and sculpin. Anchovies and squid strips are the ticket for bottom bouncers, and those willing to throw jigs like the Colt Sniper have seen late-season bonito and even a few schoolie barracuda on the move outside the breakwall. **Best baits & lures right now:** - **Surf:** Natural sand crabs or Gulp! Sandworms, 8-10# leader, Carolina rigged. - **Jetty/Harbor:** Drop-shotting 3" Big Hammer or Z-Man soft plastics, and live ghost shrimp or mussels for those bigger bottom species. - **Pier:** For mackerel, flashy Sabiki rigs with stripbait; for perch or croaker, a light hi-lo rig with colored Gulp! or cut anchovy. **Top spots to put on your radar:** - **Santa Monica Bay:** Especially sunrise for croaker and perch, look for those off-color water lines just north of the pier. - **Marina del Rey South Jetty:** Great for bass on high tide; the swing between 7:30–9:30 AM should be fire today. **Freshwater crew:** Panfish and bass at MacArthur Park Lake have been sluggish but responding best to drop-shot nightcrawlers in the warmer, shallow coves by late afternoon. That’s the scoop for today—conditions are lining up for a great bite if you hit the tides right and keep things light and natural. Thanks for tuning in! Don’t forget to subscrib This content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI.