Dana Point — Dana Wharf
Dana Point Harbor · near Dana Point · Los Angeles / SoCal
Fishing
At a glance
- Difficulty
- beginner
- Best season
- Year-round; pelagics summer–fall
Permits and booking
- Licence required
- Yes
- Licence detail
- CA license (16+); 1-day licenses at the landing.
What is here
- Features
- Oldest sportfishing operation in OC · Protected harbor · Twilight trips · Family-friendly
Worth knowing
- Dogs
- Not permitted
- Good for a first timer
- Yes
Fishing detail
- Water type
- ocean-boat
- Water
- salt
- Methods
- Live bait · Dropper-loop · Surface iron · Trolling
- Boat
- boat
- Target species
- Rockfish · Calico bass · Yellowtail · Barracuda & bonito
- Intl tip
- Twilight and half-day trips are the cheapest way in; buy the 1-day license at the counter and they'll rig you up.
The guide
Dana Wharf is Orange County's oldest sportfishing outfit and the south-county counterpart to Newport, working the productive wa…
In the Guidebook
Everything above is yours for free. The written guide to Dana Point — Dana Wharf — what it is actually like, and what we would tell a friend before they went — comes with the Guidebook.
Getting there
- Coordinates
- 33.4585, -117.6995