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Best time to fish in Rodolfo Sánchez Taboada

Today, Wednesday, October 28, 2026 · local time (PDT) · Baja California, Mexico Today, Wed, Oct 28 · PDT
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Today's rating Good day 7 out of 10
Best time today 5:30–6:30 pm Also 2:50–3:30 am and 9:30–10:30 am
High tides
10:17 am
Major periods
1:28–3:28 am and 2:00–4:00 pm
Solunar activity
Medium
Sun
6:59 am–6:00 pm

Today, Wednesday, October 28, the best time to fish in Rodolfo Sánchez Taboada is 5:30 pm to 6:30 pm, with the 5:39 pm low tide, sunset, a light onshore breeze and some swell. It's a good day (7/10). Today is the best day this week.

Your day in Rodolfo Sánchez Taboada at a glance

The strip runs from midnight to midnight, local time. Night in gray, daylight in yellow; the blue curve is the tide; below, the solunar periods and the best windows.

Fishing forecast for the next 7 days

DayRatingBest timesHigh tidesMoon
Today 7good day
5:30–6:30 pm2:50–3:30 am
▲ 10:17 am Waning gibbous
Thu 29 7good day
5:40–6:20 pm3:20–4:30 am
▲ 12:13 am
▲ 11:02 am
Waning gibbous
Fri 30 6average day
5:20–6:10 pm11:40 am–12:40 pm
▲ 1:40 am
▲ 11:58 am
Waning gibbous
Sat 31 5average day
5:20–6:20 pm12:30–1:30 pm
▲ 3:23 am
▲ 1:12 pm
Waning gibbous
Sun 1 5average day
5:40–6:40 am12:50–2:50 pm
▲ 3:43 am
▲ 1:49 pm
Last quarter
Mon 2 4fair day
5:40–6:40 am2:30–4:30 pm
▲ 4:33 am
▲ 3:25 pm
Waning crescent
Tue 3 7good day
4:20–5:20 pm5:40–6:40 am
▲ 5:10 am
▲ 4:42 pm
Waning crescent

Each day's rating comes from the tide, the solunar periods, the light and, when we have the forecast, the weather.

What can you catch in Rodolfo Sánchez Taboada?

Sport fishing species with the most records within about 62 mi of Rodolfo Sánchez Taboada: California halibut, striped mullet, lingcod, white seabass and blue shark.

  1. Picture of California halibut
    California halibut Paralichthys californicus · fish · 75 records Photo: Wikimedia Commons · public domain
  2. Picture of striped mullet
    Striped mullet Mugil cephalus · fish · 18 records Photo: Roberto Pillon · CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
  3. Picture of lingcod
    Lingcod Ophiodon elongatus · fish · 14 records Photo: Will Sides · CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
  4. Picture of white seabass
    White seabass Atractoscion nobilis · fish · 5 records Photo: Wikimedia Commons · public domain
  5. Picture of blue shark
    Blue shark Prionace glauca · shark · 4 records Photo: Diego Delso · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
  6. Picture of kelp bass
    Kelp bass Paralabrax clathratus · fish · 3 records Photo: Steve Lonhart/MBNMS · public domain · Wikimedia Commons
  7. Picture of barred sand bass
    Barred sand bass Paralabrax nebulifer · fish · 3 records Photo: NickW557 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

There are too few sightings here to tell in which months each species is seen most.

These are sightings and catches recorded since 1970 (reports from divers and anglers, scientific surveys and museum collections), not a promise that you will catch them. The months come from sightings only, adjusted for how many there are each month; hatched months have too few to tell.

Source: GBIF.org, which also gathers OBIS data. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY 4.0, from 1,130 datasets (retrieved October 24, 2026). Where the data comes from

Photos: each species' image on Wikidata (Wikimedia Commons) or, if there isn't one, one from GBIF; only licences that allow this use, each with its author and licence.

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How we work out the best time

We score every moment of the day, every 10 minutes, with simple rules anglers have used for decades:

  • Tide: 2 to 3.5 points in the hour before and the hour after each high and low tide. Spring tides (high coefficient) score more, because the water moves faster.
  • Solunar: 2.5 points in the major periods (moon overhead or underfoot) and 1.5 in the minor ones (moonrise and moonset).
  • Light: 2 points at dawn and dusk, from first light to the end of the morning golden hour and from the evening golden hour to the end of twilight.
  • Weather: falling pressure adds 1 point and rising pressure takes 1 away; wind takes points away from force 4 (about 12 mph), up to 5 points in a gale; waves of 1.6 ft to 4.9 ft add half a point (they stir up the water) and from 8.2 ft they take points away (up to 4).
  • Best windows: the stretches of 40 minutes to 3 hours with the most points, at least an hour apart.
  • Day's rating out of 10: the best window (up to 5), the moon (up to 2, near new or full moon), the tide coefficient (up to 2) and whether a solunar period lines up with sunrise or sunset (1). Without a tide, we score out of 8 and scale it to 10. Good weather adds up to 1 point and bad weather pulls it down.

Today: best window 3.6 of 5, moon 1 of 2, coefficient 1.5 of 2 and lineup 0 of 1; the weather adds 1.

It's a guide, not a guarantee: fish don't read tide tables. Always check the sea conditions and local fishing rules before you go.

Learn more

Fishing rules in Rodolfo Sánchez Taboada

Licenses, size limits, bag limits and closed seasons are set by the authorities and change often. We don't copy them here: check the official website before you go.

Questions about fishing in Rodolfo Sánchez Taboada

What's the best time to fish in Rodolfo Sánchez Taboada today?

5:30 pm to 6:30 pm, with the 5:39 pm low tide, sunset, a light onshore breeze and some swell. Also 2:50 am to 3:30 am and 9:30 am to 10:30 am. Today's rating: 7/10 (good day).

What about tomorrow? When's the best time to fish in Rodolfo Sánchez Taboada?

Tomorrow, Thursday, October 29: 5:40 pm to 6:20 pm, with a rating of 7/10.

Which day this week is best for fishing in Rodolfo Sánchez Taboada?

Wednesday, October 28, at 7/10. Its best window is 5:30 pm to 6:30 pm.

What can you catch in Rodolfo Sánchez Taboada?

Sport fishing species with the most records within about 62 mi of Rodolfo Sánchez Taboada: California halibut, striped mullet, lingcod, white seabass and blue shark. These are sightings and catches recorded in GBIF and OBIS, not a promise that you will catch them.

When are the solunar periods in Rodolfo Sánchez Taboada today?

Major: 1:28–3:28 am and 2:00–4:00 pm. Minor: 9:29–10:29 am and 7:29–8:29 pm. Solunar activity today: medium.

Does the tide affect fishing in Rodolfo Sánchez Taboada?

Yes. Today high tide is at 10:17 am and low tide at 3:47 am and 5:39 pm, with a tide coefficient of 82 (average tides). The hours around each tide change tend to fish best, because moving water carries food.

How is the rating worked out?

From the tide, the solunar periods, the light at dawn and dusk, the moon phase and, when we have the forecast, the pressure, the wind and the waves. Each factor gives a fixed number of points and the rating sums them up out of 10.

Does it take the weather into account?

Yes. During today's best window: steady pressure (29.94 inHg), light onshore wind (6 mph) and some swell (3.7 ft waves) to stir the water. Strong wind and big waves lower the rating; falling pressure raises it a little.

What are the fishing rules in Rodolfo Sánchez Taboada?

Recreational fishing rules in Rodolfo Sánchez Taboada (licenses, size limits, bag limits and closed seasons) are set by the authorities: National Commission of Aquaculture and Fisheries. They change often: check the official website before you go.

More about Rodolfo Sánchez Taboada today

Our own calculation: tide from Ensenada (TICON-4), sun and moon with astronomy-engine and, when available, weather and sea from Open-Meteo (ECMWF, NOAA GFS and Copernicus Marine, CC BY 4.0). Slackwater database (https://github.com/openwatersio/slackwater-database). Source: Hart-Davis, M., Dettmering, D., Seitz, F. (2025), TICON-4: TIdal CONstants based on GESLA-4 sea-level records, SEANOE, https://doi.org/10.17882/109129. Licensed CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Modified: see https://github.com/openwatersio/slackwater-database#modifications-to-source-data

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