Top Ten Fishes and Other Ocean Creatures that Can Be Caught While Fishing Off Southern California Beaches
I don't eat fish anymore but when I did, halibut was my favorite. If your lucky you can pull up a keeper off the piers, docks and barges.
Although they have poisonous dorsal fins, their meat is sweet and tasty. Commonly caught off So. Cal beaches.
Kinda scary schools of them come so close to the surfers and swimmers. They can occasionally be caught off the piers.
Sharks are a group of elasmobranch fish characterized by a cartilaginous skeleton, five to seven gill slits on the sides of the head, and pectoral fins that are not fused to the head. Modern sharks are classified within the clade Selachimorpha (or Selachii) and are the sister group to the rays. However, the term "shark" has also been (incorrectly) used to refer to extinct members of the subclass Elasmobranchii, which are technically outside the Selachimorpha clade. Notable examples of improper classification include Cladoselache, and various other members of the Chondrichthyes class like the holocephalid eugenedontidans. Every once in a while large sharks such as Mako, Thresher, Hammerheads and even Great Whites are caught off the piers.
During the summer (usually) Southern California beaches have the "Grunion Run". On certain nights during a very high tide Grunions come onto the beaches, mate and lay there eggs into the wet sand then wiggle back out into the ocean. During the next high tide the eggs hatch and the babies swim away. On some nights the beaches are littered with them. It's quite a sight.
The most common bass caught. Keepers are commonly caught off So.Cal beaches.
Also called Kelp Bass. Common bass caught from Southern California beaches.
Commonly caught off Southern California beaches. Some fish for them for the sport of it. They put up a hell of a fight. I have seen very large ones (about the size of an engine hood of a car) pulled up. I've also seen countless idiots get stung/gashed handling them.
Most common fish caught off the piers.
When I use to fish, I frequently reeled up these weird things.
Squid are cephalopods of the order Teuthida, which comprises around 304 species. Like all other cephalopods, squid have a distinct head, bilateral symmetry, a mantle, and arms. Occasionally we have giant squid off the coast. Sometimes there’s so many, when they chum the water, the whole surface for about a forty to fifty foot radius, turns brown for all the squid surfacing.