Rockfish on the fly

FFTW: What sort of fly will you take along when you try this?

Probably any streamer would work.

Yep.  Myron and Jay are on the same page. Any streamer should do. They are looking for movement and tend to eat now and ask questions later. The hard part is getting it down to them. I mostly used clousers in L.A.

I wonder how much weight he had on the line right above the fly?

Looks like about an 1/8 to a 1/4 oz. to me.
Nice looking reel though. Is that a Billy Pate?

I have some line that works pretty good... "AIRFLO Depthfinder BigGame"...I used it out west to bucktail(troll big flies) and to get it down quick...Here is a link...Castable when you get it in 400 grain...
http://www.flylines.com/Flylines_AirfloFlylineRange_Specialist_Depthfinder.cfm
Designed for what your talking about...

Rockfish will take a swat at anything that moves. I've heard of guys catching them on a strip from a white tee-shirt impaled on the hook. We used to fish for them up at Sekiu and Neah Bay, and a big white bucktail with a few strands of mylar always worked.

If you find them on the surface, just about any fly line will work. If they're deep and near the rocks, a shooting head made from LC-13 or lead-core trolling line is good. Buy the cheapest shooting head material you can find, and bring several replacements.

Tom