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CAPE CORTES 20’ - 100’ Steep slope with depth. Also has gorgonians, pelagic game- bass, yellowtail, and calico bass. Caution:
kelp and lobsters. Caution: Surge and cur-
rents. fish, and lobsters. Surge, currents, deep, torpedo rays.
LOBSTER BAY 30’ - 100’ Steep wall to the FRED ROCK 15’ - 70’ A pinnacle 150 yards CHINA POINT 10’ - 80’ Once used by smug-
east with lobsters, scallops, big calico bass,
and garibaldi. Caution: Surge and currents. off of a small beach has rocky reefs with glers of illegal Chinese human cargo. Rocky
CATALINA HEAD 0’ - 45’ Lots of kelp near white sea bass, calicos, yellowtail, lobsters, reefs with kelp host ”bull” lobsters, scallops,
shore, with sheephead, halibut, and calico
bass. Caution: Boat traffic. and scallops. abalone, and sea lions.Caution: Heavy surf,
CATALINA HARBOR & WELL’S BEACH 0’ - 40’ surge, currents, poor visibility.
Has 99 moorings and anchorage for up
to 200. Usually poor visibility, but some- RAGGERS POINT 10’ - 80’ Around the corner
times good for snorkeling. Scant remnants
of 200-year-old Chinese pirate ship near from shark harbor is a kelp forest with rocks SALTA VERDE POINT 15’ - 80’ Rocky with
Ballast Point. Caution: Boat traffic, Catalina
Harbor is 14 sea miles from Isthmus Cove. and pelagic gamefish. kelp at 100 yards offshore. Sandy at 50’+
PIN ROCK 0’ - 60’ Kelp amongst numerous depth. You’ll likely see halibut, sheephead,
rocks. Good snorkeling site. Caution: Surgy,
boat traffic. SENTINEL ROCK 0’ - 100’ Photogenic kelp yellowtail, and protected black sea bass.
PEDESTAL ROCK 15 - 100’ Pinnacle 200 forest with lobsters, abalone, scallops, and
yards off a boulder slide has a cave at 90’
gamefish. Caution: Exposed to Westerlies, SILVER CANYON LANDING 10’ - 50’ Rocky
surge, poor visibility at times. area has kelp, lobsters, and giant black sea
bass.
BEN WESTON POINT 10’ - 80’ Rocky kelp
forest with good exposure for gamefish. ALISADES 0’ - 40’ Remote Four-mile-long
Caution: Surge, difficult radio transmission area with kelp forests and pristine condi-
from Ben Weston Point to Church Rock. tions. Lots of pelagic gamefish.
ARNSWORTH BANKS 54’ - 135’+ Ecologi-
cal preserve with spectacular walls, can-
yons, caves, and purple hydorcoral (best at
100’+). Also has blue rockfish, white sea-
