Tide and Weather Insights for California's Fall Fishing Bonanza

Artificial Lure here, bringing you the Wednesday, October 22nd, 2025 Pacific Ocean California fishing report—the lowdown straight from the docks, the tides, and the reels. **Tidal report first:** Today, our coast wakes to a high tide at 4:31 AM, receding to a low at 10:33 AM. There’s another high rolling in at 5:26 PM, with a low around 11:49 PM. If you want to fish moving water—which always seems to fire up the bite—you’ve got prime windows right around the tide changes. Sunrise was 7:22 AM, with sunset coming early at 6:18 PM. That late afternoon push coincides with the incoming tide, which bodes well for evening anglers according to Tide-Forecast.com. **Weather:** Expect classic California fall—cool in the morning warming up with light offshore breezes by midday. No heavy moon, which should push fish onto the chew with the changing tides. **Fish activity and counts:** Recent boat tallies from 22nd Street Landing, Seaforth Sportfishing, and H&M Landing show it's been a fall bonanza. Bluefin tuna are still cruising offshore, with reports of limit-style catches on full-day and multi-day trips. The Legend just docked with 84 bluefin and 2 yellowfin after a 1.5 day run. Closer to shore and at the islands, rockfish and reds are stuffing coolers—Monte Carlo and Redondo Special boats stacked up hundreds of rockfish, with sanddab, whitefish, and a smattering of calico bass, halibut, and sheephead peppered in. Recent trips out of San Pedro, San Diego, and Channel Islands have averaged double-digit numbers of rockfish per angler and steady counts of whitefish and bonito. At the Farallon Islands up north, the big lingcod and rockfish are still popping, with the Bass Tub’s crew reporting full bags for everyone. **Recent catches:** - Offshore: Bluefin and yellowfin tuna, some yellowtail. - Nearshore/Islands: Rockfish, vermilion rockfish, red snapper, sanddab, sheephead, calico bass, whitefish, bonito, halibut, and the odd lingcod. **Best baits and lures:** For the tuna, anglers are scoring with glow flatfall jigs, sinker rigs with live sardines, and small knife jigs. If you’re bounding bottom for rockfish and reds, drop a squid strip or cut sardine on a double dropper loop—anything with scent down deep turns eyeballs. Near-surface, mini swimbaits, 1/8 oz. spinnerbaits like the Strike King Mini-King, and small plastics are deadly for calico and sand bass. Topwater is still worth a toss in the kelp for bass, especially first light—anything paddletail or a walking bait with flash is liable to get whacked. **Hot spots:** - **San Pedro Bay/22nd Street Landing**: Still rolling out solid numbers on half-day and overnight boats—hard to beat for convenience. - **Coronado Islands (San Diego)**: Tuna are still within range, and tricky yellowtail are showing on dropper loops near structure. - **Santa Monica Bay/Redondo Beach**: Sanddab and red snapper are easy pickings for family trips. - **Farrallon Islands (NorCal)**: If you can swing the run, big lingcod and This content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI.