328 AOTY point rockfish. Not me, but possible!

Shortraker rockfish
104 cm= 41 inches times 8 pts per inch= 328.  Sport caught supposedly.  This could make up a few points in a hurry!

Wow...that RF must be a great great grandfather! Thanks for posting the picture kardinal_84.

Wow...that RF must be a great great grandfather! Thanks for posting the picture kardinal_84.

The associated story says it could be 200 years old!!  I get excited about a yelloweye a third that size!  I can't even imagine!  Maybe time to invest in an electric reel.  Shortrakers are most abundant 1,000 to 1250 ft down I hear. Either that or eat more spinach!!!!

Much better with the story posted by Tenacious B

http://www.northwestkayakanglers.com/index.php?topic=11216.0

That's an incredible fish.

Makes you want to fish deep, until you have to check your bait thousand feet away.

Nice. I've not come close to that size yellow-eye. At the same time...200 years old, and we bring them up on a whim...always makes me feel a little bad (just knowing that they must be fairly old to be fairly large) to take something older than me. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy them: a good yellow-eye filet is buttery-smooth and tasty. But still...I wonder, at times, if fishers deserve what they get. 

</end philosophical conjecture)....

The biologists are now telling us that this one wasn't a geezer fish of +200 years, but rather just a good grower -- and a mere 64 years old.  I think the insurance adjuster must have caught the rockfish equivalent of Andre the Giant.

http://www.ktuu.com/news/biologists-reduce-estimate-of-record-rockfish-age-070913,0,7445890.story