Finfish / Surf
Finfish: Surf
Amphistichus rhodoterus
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Open
Year-round
Best
Apr–Jul
Gathers into the surf zone to bear live young from late spring into summer; the biggest, most numerous fish crowd the inner bar then.
signal · Swell/surf and tide (NOAA CO-OPS): fish the incoming into the troughs; read the beach shape (modeled)
Plate No. 051 · Finley & Bohlman
Abundant, low impact
Prolific and live-bearing, with no real conservation concern, a low-impact beach take. Slip the biggest gravid females back during the spring aggregation and you keep it that way.
The read
The beach fish: no boat, no jetty, just a rod in the surf. Bears live young, and gathers thick into the wash to do it through late spring and summer.
The event: Read the beach for troughs and cuts; fish the incoming tide into the inner bar.
What we watch: live feeds
What informs Redtail Surfperch in particular. The shared feeds it reads (tides, weather, water temp) are the live feeds above.
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