howsthebite · California
How's the bite in California today?
- Lockjaw
- Picky
- Biting
- On fire
13 tracked waters in CA. Faded dots are the rest of the country. 1 outside the map area.
| Index | Water | Temp | Level | Best window |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 On fire | Cachuma Lake | — | 742.14 ft | 3:51 AM–5:51 AM |
| 8 On fire | Isabella Lake | — | 2554.91 ft | 3:44 AM–5:44 AM |
| 8 On fire | New Bullards Bar Reservoir | — | 1880.87 ft | 3:55 AM–5:55 AM |
| 7 Biting | Camanche Reservoir | — | 222.89 ft | 3:55 AM–5:55 AM |
| 7 Biting | Folsom Lake | — | 399.3 ft | 3:56 AM–5:56 AM |
| 7 Biting | Lake Berryessa | — | 427.63 ft | 3:59 AM–5:59 AM |
| 7 Biting | Shasta Lake | — | 972.89 ft | 4:01 AM–6:01 AM |
| 7 Biting | Lake Tahoe | — | 6.52 ft | 3:51 AM–5:51 AM |
| 7 Biting | Millerton Lake | — | 502.15 ft | 3:49 AM–5:49 AM |
| 7 Biting | New Hogan Lake | — | 666.01 ft | 3:54 AM–5:54 AM |
| 7 Biting | New Melones Lake | — | 1003.71 ft | 3:53 AM–5:53 AM |
| 7 Biting | Trinity Lake | — | 2314.25 ft | 4:02 AM–6:02 AM |
| 7 Biting | Whiskeytown Lake | — | 1206.07 ft | 4:01 AM–6:01 AM |
| 6 Biting | Pine Flat Lake | — | 752.33 ft | 5:48 AM–7:48 AM |
Rebuilt 7:44 AM · every reading carries its station on the water's own page.
Before you go
A California fishing licence runs $64.54 a year for residents. CDFW sets the rules and is the one that counts.
What a California fishing licence costs, and who is exempt → The days you can fish California without a licence →What you may keep
CDFW sets a size or bag limit for 37 species here — 26 with at least one area open today. Where a species is open in one water and closed in another, its own page says which. Each page carries the agency's own figures, the date they were read, and what is still unsettled.
- Albacore tuna
- Bluefin tuna
- Bronzespotted rockfish closed today
- California barracuda
- California grunion
- California halibut
- California scorpionfish (sculpin)
- California sheephead
- Cowcod closed today
- Garibaldi closed today
- Giant sea bass (black sea bass) closed today
- Green sturgeon closed today
- Groupers, other than broomtail and gulf grouper
- Gulf and broomtail grouper closed today
- Kelp, barred sand and spotted sand bass
- Leopard shark
- Lingcod
- Marlin (black, blue and striped)
- Pacific bonito
- Pacific halibut
- Pacific herring
- Quillback rockfish closed today
- Redtail surfperch
- Rockfish, cabezon and greenling (RCG complex)
- Salmon (Chinook, and Coho, Pink, Chum, Sockeye) not stated
- Shortfin mako, thresher and blue shark
- Sixgill and sevengill shark
- Soupfin shark
- Striped bass
- Surfperch, other species
- Swordfish (broadbill)
- Tuna, other (including bigeye and yellowfin)
- White seabass
- White shark (great white) closed today
- White sturgeon closed today
- Yelloweye rockfish closed today
- Yellowtail
Can you eat what you catch?
That call belongs to California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) — over 150 site-specific advisories, searchable by water, species or county, plus a statewide default for untested waters. We link the source instead of paraphrasing health advice.
OEHHA consumption advisories →