PC (Tuesday 7/7) report

Hit the water about 5:30 and had my black rockfish in about 40 min, didn't take long at 2 and 3 at a time, cycled though some small fish to get some decent eaters.  None were on the surface all day, large schools suspended about 10ft off the bottom in 90-100ft.  Switched offerings and went for lings and cabs.  Cabs were on the bite and I release about a dozen keeping a nice 23 incher.
  Note to self... If you happen to hook and bring to the surface an incidental near shore HALIBUT, have a plan, a good plan..  grabbing it with the lip gripper and trying to pull it into the yak is not one.  Two violent head shakes and one slippery 25-30lb halibut escapes to fight again..  heartbreaking (great day to forget the gaff, should have tried to hook it though the gills with the game clip but ?? )..

 Dried my eyes and kept at it.  Right around slack tide I  picked up two nice lings (28.5" and 35.5") one right after another (released about 6 other lings averaging from 25" to tiny). Headed in about noon to lick my wounds and relive the hailbut fire drill where is that "redo" button anyway

Nice haul PP. I haven't fished in so long, totally jonesing.

HOLY CRAP!!!  Nice day on the water PP!!!!!

Great job PP. Now i'm sorry I wimped out on the forecast...I should have known better.

I hauled 2 25-35lb Buts into a regular boat on Saturday with a Berkley Lip Grip.  I was actually pretty amazed at how well I was able to control and handle them with it. Nice catches sounds like a great day.

Lip grip them then what??? Bonk until calm?

Holy crap, yeah nice catch!  Sweet about catching the Halibut.  Too bad, too.

Was the Berkley Gulp package left in the picture to throw us off the scent?

Great job! Too bad about the butt. I'll bet you felt sick to your stomach after losing that one!

Was the Berkley Gulp package left in the picture to throw us off the scent?

Great job! Too bad about the butt. I'll bet you felt sick to your stomach after losing that one!

I don't know if it is helping or not, but I tip my ling jigs with a little strip (about 2-3 inches long, width of a thick pencil, split down the middle for half its length) of the gulp strip bait.  In the past I always added real bait, squid, herring etc. but the gulp is easier and tougher.  I don't bother with it for rockfish.  

Yep total sinking hollow sick to the stomach..  Felt just like the time I whiffed a cake 50yrd  shot on a nice 4x4 mulie when I was 16.. Everything comes together perfectly at a perfect point in time, and then you blow it, and watch as it all unravels like it never happened..  Oh well.. maybe tomorrow

Got my hopes up.  Picked up a VHF and am hoping for clear weather for the rest of the week.

24togo and I are supposed to head out there tomorrow.  I need some work done to my car gonna try to get it fixed tonight but doubtful.  I think he's still going so you might have company.  As the forecast looks i'm shooting for sat/sunday now.

Lip grip them then what??? Bonk until calm?

It's all about bonking the butts till they're tired and or calm  ;-)

35.5" ling.. wholly molly. Nice one PP!

Z

Nicely done as usual PP.  So sorry to hear about the butt ...

I don't know if it is helping or not, but I tip my ling jigs with a little strip (about 2-3 inches long, width of a thick pencil, split down the middle for half its length) of the gulp strip bait.  In the past I always added real bait, squid, herring etc. but the gulp is easier and tougher.  I don't bother with it for rockfish.  

Lately I've been tipping irons with a mini B2 squid (glow!).  I get a lot more bites that way, but I do catch a lot more small fish that I wouldn't think I would normally catch on the full sized irons.  They may be pecking at the squid.

-Allen

Nice catch!!  Darn, I was wimpy on the forecast as well. Looks like it was good fishing, and not too windy from the one picture where I can see water. I'll likely remain overly cautious until I get a few more trips out there.