Specializing in California spiny lobster hoop-net night charters out of Point Loma, San Diego Lobster Fishing runs fall and winter trips from the San Diego Bay grounds. Hoop-netting season opens in October and closes in March, overlapping the winter lobster programs that share the San Diego Bay grounds with operators like Fisherman's Landing. Captains set baited hoop nets in a line along the bay's structure, working the drift across a king-tide or full-moon window when lobster movement peaks and the hoops pull up the heaviest catches. Each angler needs a California fishing license plus a Lobster Report Card, and the crew handles the measuring, tagging, and bagging that state rules require — paperwork that parallels what's handled on the peninsula's peer six-pack charter boats like Torqued Sportfishing. A single full-moon winter charter can fill a cooler with legal tails from multiple hoop sets, pulled during the short window when tide, moon phase, and water temperature align for dense movement.