Shark fishing can be one of the biggest rushes that you can have while fishing in the ocean. It can test your physical strength and endurance as well as your mental toughness. There are many different species of sharks that come into shallow waters in summer time to spawn. And just for the record a sand shark is a generic name for most of the inshore sharks in the bays! It’s legal to fish for every species of sharks in California, and the west coast, except for the Great White Shark. So have luck, be in the right time and place, have a few brewskies, and have a blast!

Sharks Of California!

Name: Spiny Dogfish
Generic Name: Squalus acanthias
Caught: Shore, Piers, Kyak





Name: Gray Smoothhound
Generic Name: Mustelus californicus
Caught: Shore, Piers, Kyak





Name: Brown Smoothhound
Generic Name: Mustelus henlei
Caught: Shore, Piers, Kyak





Name: Shovelnose Guitarfish
Generic Name: Rhinobatos productus
Caught: Shore, Piers, Kyak
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Name: Leopard Shark
Generic Name: Triakis semifasciata
Caught: Shore, Piers, Kyak





Name: Horn Shark
Generic Name: Heterodontus francisci
Caught: Shore, Piers, Kyak





Name: Angel Shark
Generic Name: Squatina californica
Caught: Shore, Piers, Kyak





Name: Six-Gill Shark
Generic Name: Hexanchus griseus
Caught: Shore?, Piers, Kyak





Name: Common Thresher Shark
Generic Name: Alopias vulpinus
Caught: Piers, Kyak, Open Ocean





Name: Blue Shark
Generic Name: Prionace glauca
Caught: Piers, Kyak, Open Ocean





Name: Shortfin Mako
Generic Name: Isurus oxyrinchus
Caught: Open Ocean





Name: Great White Shark
Generic Name: Carcharodon carcharias
Caught: $200,000.00 fine and up to 12 years!