Artificial Lure here with your Pacific Ocean, California fishing report for Monday, November 24, 2025. Anglers across the coast woke up to a cool, calm morning, with the marine layer burning off quickly after sunrise at 7:11 a.m. Expect sunset at 4:54 p.m. today—so plan your sessions accordingly, as the bite’s proven hottest with early light and just as the sun dips low, making use of our short November days according to the Lost Coast Trail tides planner.

Today’s tides give us a low just after midnight, followed by a modest high tide around 5:36 a.m., and midday brings another higher cycle—this keeps current moving and fish alert in the structure. For San Francisco Bay and the outer coast, tide-forecast.com shows your action windows around dawn and late afternoon, when that solunar activity ticks up and fish are actively feeding.

Weatherwise, conditions are steady: mild temps in the mid-60s, barely a breeze by midday, with ocean currents picking up after high tide. According to Ocean Weather.Gov, inner coastal waters are holding gentle swells—perfect for both small boats and shore casters.

If you’re after numbers, rockfish are still dominating the counts from Morro Bay up to Emeryville. Morro Bay Landing reported a whopping 260 mixed rockfish, plus healthy hauls of lingcod, copper and red rockfish, and some ocean whitefish yesterday. Similarly, Fish Emeryville anglers enjoyed limits on local reefs over the weekend, and good crabbing remains a bonus.

Down south, Long Beach Sportfishing dock totals remain strong on sand bass, sculpin, and the occasional California yellowtail. The El Patron recently checked in with 28 calico bass, 19 barracuda, plus a mixed bag of whitefish and sheephead—not bad at all for late November. Fisherman's Landing in San Diego mentioned morning winds and rain giving way to “beach yellowtail” and earlier in the week, a spectacular wahoo bite.

Bait and lure selection is key right now. For rockfish and lingcod, dropper-loop rigs with squid, anchovy, or even live sardine get chomped fast. If you’re a lure-tosser, try big plastic swimbaits or metal jigs colored in chrome or rootbeer—the deeper the structure, the heavier you want to go.

Shallow reef and kelp chasers, a slow-swim paddle tail fished close to the bottom has been deadly. Those hunting calico and sand bass are pulling good numbers with 3–5 inch paddle tail swimbaits, teasers, and bucktail jigs sweetened with a strip of squid. Up on the Delta and brackish inlets, the Precision Tackle spinnerbait and green pumpkin Senko (Texas or wacky rigged) have landed chunky largemouth and keeper stripers, according to Major League Fishing.

Your hot spots for today:
- **Morro Bay reefs:** Limits of vermilion, brown, and copper rockfish, plus solid lingcod. The Avenger is still seeing regular success on 3/4-day trips, especially around the edges of kelp forests and submerged structure.
- **Long Beach breakwall:** Sand bass and sculpin are bunched up below the bait balls, with spotty yellowtail action at first light.
- **Pacifica Pier and Emeryville Jetty:** steady for dungeness crab, and shore anglers are picking up surfperch and stripers on bloodworms and halibut on swimbaits as the tide moves.
- **Catalina Island in the Channel Islands:** El Patron and Victory boats report calico bass, barracuda, and quality whitefish all coming to deck on both live bait and artificials.

Today is a “good” activity day by the solunar calendar—expect productive flurries around both tide changes. Work the moving water and don’t be afraid to try a brighter or bigger lure if the water clouds up with that afternoon wind.

That’s a wrap for this morning’s Pacific bite. Thanks for tuning in—don’t forget to subscribe so you never miss tactics, reports, or hot spots around the Golden State. This has been a quiet please production, for more check out quiet please dot ai.

Great deals on fishing gear https://amzn.to/44gt1Pn

This content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI