A field guide to the species swimming in LA County surf, harbors, kelp beds, and inland reservoirs — plus the lures, techniques, and current CDFW limits that actually matter on the water.
From surf-zone corbina to kelp-bed calico bass and the rockfish on a San Pedro boat — species found in Santa Monica Bay, the South Bay, Long Beach Harbor, and Catalina.
Stocked trout, resident bass and striper, and warm-water panfish from Castaic Lake down to the neighborhood ponds CDFW plants in the Basin.
Every pier, jetty, kelp bed, reservoir, and park lake on this list, filterable by water type and by the species you are after.
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7' medium spinning combo, high-low sand crab rig, small egg sinkers.
Shop the comboSwimbait heads, 5" paddle-tail plastics, 20lb fluorocarbon leader.
Shop the packInline spinners, PowerBait, slip-sinker rig, ultralight combo.
Shop the setTexas-rig worms, a spinnerbait, a topwater frog, and worm hooks.
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