🐟 Species Guide
SoCal party boat fish — sizes, limits, seasons
Most Targeted
Bluefin Tuna
Tuna
White Seabass
Drums
Albacore
Tuna
Dorado
Mahi-mahi
Yellowtail
Amberjack
Halibut
Flatfish
Lingcod
Greenling
Barracuda
Barracudas
Red Rockfish
Rockfish
Rockfish
Rockfish
Calico Bass
Sea bass
Spiny Lobster
Lobster
All Species (62)
Angel Shark
Bat Ray
Black Cod
Black Croaker
Black Rockfish
Black Seabass
Blacksmith
Blue Perch
Blue Rockfish
Bocaccio
Bonito
Mackerel · Year-round
Brown Rockfish
Brown Smoothhound
Cabezon
Sculpins · Year-round
California Halibut
Flatfish · Year-round
Canary Rockfish
Chilipepper
Copper Rockfish
Dungeness Crab
Crab · November–June (season varies by year and area)
Fantail Sole
Giant Squid
Greenspotted Rockfish
Greenstriped Rockfish
Halfmoon
King Salmon
Leopard Shark
Ground sharks · Year-round
Mackerel
Mackerel · Year-round
Mako Shark
Monchong
Ocean Perch
Opah
Opaleye
Sea chubs · Year-round
Pacific Bonito
Perch
Petrale Sole
Flatfish · Year-round
Red Rock Crab
Rock Crab
Rock Sole
Rock Wrasse
Salmon Grouper
Sand Bass
Sea bass · Year-round
Sanddab
Flatfish · Year-round
Sargo
Sculpin
Sculpins · Year-round
Sheephead
Wrasse · Year-round
Skipjack
Tuna · Summer–fall in warm years
Soupfin Shark
Spanish Mackerel
Spotted Sand Bass
Striped Bass
Temperate bass · Year-round in Bay/Delta
Striped Marlin
Thresher Shark
Treefish
Triggerfish
Vermilion Rockfish
White Croaker
White Sturgeon
Whitefish
Wolf Eel
Yellowfin Croaker
Drums · Year-round
Yellowfin Tuna
Tuna · September–November in warm years
Yellowtail Rockfish