![]() Typically the offshore islands such as Catalina Island and San Clemente Island are the first to transition into warmer water surface action on calico bass primarily. Water temperatures play an important role in what part of the water column you will want to fish. Spring bass fishing is a over lap of winter and summer with the early months traditionally fishing deeper water structure and the later spring months getting a mixture of surface and deeper water action. They do have relatively slow growth rates and the larger fish are quite old as a result we highly recommend catching and releasing them to maintain a healthy breeding stock for the future. ![]() They are also great eating especially the smaller to mid sized fish. They fight about 5 to 8 times as hard as their freshwater counter parts with a 6 pound sand bass capable of breaking 25 pound test. Calico bass and sand bass are a challenging game fish and get up to 10 pounds. Both of these bass species make up the staple of ½ day and ¾ day trips and are also caught in large numbers when overnight fishing at the islands such as San Clemente Island and Catalina Island. During the warmer water months from May-Oct provide the most action typically on calico and sand bass, although Nov-April can also provide great action on these game fish as well. ![]() Bass fishing for both calico bass and sand bass is a year round fishery off Los Angeles and Orange County. ![]()
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