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October 2026 California Dive Forecast: The Clearest Month, Lobster Is Open, and the Santa Ana Glass-Offs
eptember handed off a changed ocean. Hurricane Marie delivered the summer's biggest swell and rearranged the Laguna coast, and then the water flipped cold and the fall pattern set in. October is the payoff month. In most years it is the single clearest stretch on the California calendar - the bloom is gone, the crowds have thinned, the swell windows get longer, and the first Santa Ana winds glass off the ocean. On top of that, lobster season is open and the groundfish deep zo

Bret Whitman
1 day ago6 min read
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