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Anaheim Bay West Jetty (Naval Weapons Station Seal Beach), painted with paired 1944 'arrowhead' stone jetty at the naval weapons station entrance
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Anaheim Bay West Jetty (Naval Weapons Station Seal Beach)

Anaheim Bay, Seal Beach, California

2,750 ft longLandmark: Paired 1944 'arrowhead' stone jetty at the Naval Weapons Station entranceLeft flank: ocean-facingRight flank: channel-facing
Pier Scout California spiny lobster mark
Pier Scout field profile
Rock formation, channel depth, access, and fishing zones
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Fishing conditions

Weather

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National Weather Service (api.weather.gov)

Tides — NOAA Los Angeles (Outer Harbor; nearest active primary tide station found)

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NOAA CO-OPS predictions, station 9410660

Sun & moon — today
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Dawn/dusk and a moving tide (the hour around a high or low) typically bring the most active bite — worth timing a trip around whichever falls closest to first/last light.

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Ocean Swell & Water Temp

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NOAA National Data Buoy Center

License: Do not assume the public-pier license exemption applies. CDFW defines a public pier as shore-connected with free, unrestricted public access and built or functioning primarily for fishing; I found no source showing that status for this military-harbor breakwater. More importantly, no unrestricted public access to the jetty was verified. Follow current Navy/security instructions and posted signs.
Jetty structure· Built 1944 (paired stone 'arrowhead jetties' constructed by the U.S. Navy at the Anaheim Bay entrance)

Uneven stone/riprap breakwater forming the west side of the Naval Weapons Station Seal Beach harbor entrance; it is paired with a separate east arm, not a decked public pier. City planning material says two jetties were built into the ocean in 1944 to form the harbor entrance. This is an active military-harbor setting, so do not treat the rocks as a publicly accessible fishing platform.

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Recommended spots

  1. West-arm base — do not use as a public fishing access
    Controlled military shoreline

    The structure is at Naval Weapons Station Seal Beach. No authoritative source located establishes free, unrestricted public pedestrian or fishing access here, so this record does not recommend approaching it.

  2. Mid west arm — do not fish
    Restricted setting / unstable rock

    The mid-arm is unmapped as a public walkway and is part of a military-harbor entrance. Uneven armor rock and the absence of verified public access outweigh any speculative fishing value.

  3. Outer west-arm head — do not fish
    Restricted entrance / wave and navigation hazard

    This is closest to the restricted water between the paired jetties and most exposed to waves. It is not a lawful or safe substitute for a public jetty; obey posted signs and security directions.

Landmarks

  • Naval Weapons Station Seal Beach controlled shorelineaccess

    The base of the mapped west arm is at the Naval Weapons Station. The adjacent Seal Beach National Wildlife Refuge says public access inside the active base is limited to pre-registered monthly guided tours; no unrestricted jetty-access source was found.

  • West stone breakwaterstructure

    OpenStreetMap maps this as a breakwater (way 368975949). It is irregular rock rather than a maintained walking deck.

  • Anaheim Bay East Jetty Light 6 (opposite arm)structure

    U.S. Coast Guard Light List position for the light on the paired east jetty. It marks the active entrance area; it is not an access point.

  • Restricted Anaheim Bay harbor entrancehazard

    33 CFR §334.930 identifies the water between the east and west jetties as part of the Naval Weapons Station restricted area; security instructions and active navigation are controlling conditions.

  • Outer head — wave-washed armor rockhazard

    The exposed end is the furthest point from shore on uneven, wet rock and beside a navigation entrance. This is a hazard marker, not a suggested destination.

Rock + depth formation assessment

Substrate: Stone/armor-rock breakwater at the 1944 Navy-built Anaheim Bay entrance, with charted harbor and coastal water around it. · confidence: low

The available evidence supports a broad rock-breakwater characterization, not a fishable rock-edge bathymetric profile. NOAA ENC Direct's Harbor.Sounding_point layer has surrounding soundings, but they are chart points rather than measurements against the jetty toe; this assessment deliberately uses only broad, non-numeric depth character. Access and restricted-area concerns mean the categories must not be read as fishing advice.

A jetty's rock pile is the structure — there's no deck, just boulders stacked out into the water. Snags happen when your line or hook drops into a gap between rocks instead of open water. Rock sitting shallow, close to the surface, is the easiest to hang up on, and gets worse as the tide drops and exposes more of it. Rock that gives way to deeper water has less exposed structure to catch on, but a hook that does snag there is harder to pull free. Sandy gaps between rock sections are the clearest, lowest-snag water on a jetty.

Anaheim Bay West Jetty (Naval Weapons Station Seal Beach)'s rock doesn't read as fully shallow anywhere assessed; the closest to it is the mixed-drop rock on the ocean-facing flank (its full length), the channel-facing flank (its full length), and the outer end — a moderate snag risk.

Ocean-facing flankChannel-facing flank
  • Ocean-facing flank · mixed drop
    rock into a slope, moderate snag risk

    Nearby ENC chart soundings document variable water around the outer harbor, but do not resolve the rock-edge slope. No exact depth is asserted.

  • Channel-facing flank · mixed drop
    rock into a slope, moderate snag risk

    The harbor-facing side is within the controlled entrance setting. ENC soundings give surrounding navigation context only, not a safe or public fishing profile.

  • Outer tip · mixed drop
    rock into a slope, moderate snag risk

    The head joins the active entrance area. Chart coverage was checked, but no nearby sounding is represented as an exact tip depth.

Last reviewed 2026-08-26 · sources: NOAA ENC Direct, enc_harbour MapServer, Harbor.Sounding_point layer 76 (chart soundings); OpenStreetMap way 368975949 (mapped breakwater geometry); City of Seal Beach Open Space/Recreation/Conservation Element (1944 paired-jetties history)

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