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2 shops — hours, live bait, and directions.
Oxnard's two tackle shops both sit inside Channel Islands Harbor, the launch point for the sportfishing fleet that runs to the northern Channel Islands. Channel Islands Sportfishing Tackle at 4151 S Victoria Ave is the full tackle store for the Channel Islands Sportfishing landing — it stocks live bait (squid, anchovies, and sardines when available), rental rods, and California fishing licenses, and the landing runs an 11-boat fleet on half-day through multi-day trips and serves as an IGFA weigh station. In the same harbor, Hook's Landing is a fourth-generation, family-operated bait-and-tackle shop and ticket agent that carries live bait — anchovies, sardines, and squid when available — and books an owner-operated fleet out of the harbor.
The harbor faces the Santa Barbara Channel and the northern Channel Islands — Anacapa, Santa Cruz, Santa Rosa, and San Miguel. Rockfish are the year-round mainstay over the island reefs and dominate the catch counts. Calico bass turn on at Anacapa and the front side of Santa Cruz Island from spring through fall, with California halibut on the inshore flats in summer. White seabass turn on from late spring into early summer when the squid show, and yellowtail stage at the islands from spring into fall. Bluefin tuna and other offshore species move within range in summer and fall, and lingcod fill in over the reefs in fall. The northern islands tend to run a few weeks behind the Southern California bight on the seasonal calendar, so the warm-water bite arrives a touch later here than off Orange County or San Diego.
Both shops are in the harbor, so a tackle stop is on the way to the dock.
Shops in Oxnard
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