Huntington Beach Pier
Huntington Beach (Orange County) · near Huntington Beach · Los Angeles / SoCal
Fishing
At a glance
- Difficulty
- beginner
- Best season
- Year-round; corbina/perch spring–summer, mackerel summer–fall
Permits and booking
- Licence required
- No
- Licence detail
- Public ocean pier — no CA license required for anyone (CDFW). A tackle shop on the pier rents rods and sells bait.
What is here
- Features
- Iconic 1,850-ft concrete pier · License-free · Tackle shop on the pier · Walkable from downtown 'Surf City'
Worth knowing
- Dogs
- Allowed
- Good for a first timer
- Yes
Fishing detail
- Water type
- pier-jetty
- Water
- salt
- Methods
- Bait rigs · Sabiki · Carolina rig · Pier casting
- Boat
- shore
- Target species
- Surfperch · Corbina · Mackerel & bonito · White croaker & halibut
- Intl tip
- No license, no boat, no gear needed — the pier tackle shop rents rods and sells bait; fish the end for mackerel or midway for perch.
The guide
The Huntington Beach Pier is the marquee license-free shore fishery of the region — a long concrete pier reaching past the surf…
In the Guidebook
Everything above is yours for free. The written guide to Huntington Beach Pier — what it is actually like, and what we would tell a friend before they went — comes with the Guidebook.
Getting there
- Coordinates
- 33.654, -118.005