Westport Shore Fishing..

[Smossy]

Tell me where to go and what to use please. I suck. 
Whatever for lingcods, black rockfish, greenlings. Etc. 
Spent all day out here and nothing but a sunburn. And its starting to get under my skin... (the frustration) that is.

[Kola16]

If you want to just catch greenlings, just put a 3"-4" white soft plastic (worm) with a curly tail on with a walleye jig head (1/4-1/2 ounce). Cast out into the kelp beds (if those exist in Westport) and retrieve while jigging. Sometimes in just seaweed or structure works too 

Then rig that greenling up and catch a ling! If you are fishing the jetty, you can throw out wilson pt. darts for lings as well. I also slay rockfish on a crippled herring lure in a glow body and a green back (I don't think that the color matters as long as it is fluttering) Casting it out and retrieving/jigging it into rocks is a little sketchy though. That is why I broke down and got a kayak 

[PolarBear]

Fish the South Jetty out past the green can.  Use sand shrimp close to the bottom for kelp greenlings.  Use small greenlings for ling cod bait.  Rig greenings 5' under a large bobber and let it swim around the rocks and hold on.  For bass, use white or black grubs, floating rapalas or spoons.

[Fishaholic]

Im glad you answered your phone man. Be safe and have fun.

[Smossy]

The weather is kind of poor today but I may still give it a go. Thanks for the advice everyone.

[Encore 280]

Get ahold of some shrimp and/or clam necks and go for surf perch.

[Smossy]

Get ahold of some shrimp and/or clam necks and go for surf perch.

Yeah i just dont feel like wrestling with waves today. Too gloomy and Im not in a great mood. I did save my clam necks though.

[Encore 280]

Yeah I hear ya, not fun trying catch fish when the weather is cruddy and they're not biting. I was thinking you should be able to get perch off the jetty too although I've never tried it. The worse day of fishing is better than any day of work. Good luck.

[Halo]

I used to do a lot of jetty fishing years ago. Used sand shrimp mostly but piling worms occasionally, very hard to keep on the hook but the fish love them. On the way down once we stopped at 7-11 and got some nachos drowned in chili & cheese, when we got the piling worms all we had handy to put them in was the bowl full of leftover chili & cheese. The fish go nuts for piling worms in chili & cheese sauce if you can keep it on the hook. Did it many times after that first trip.

[Encore 280]

I think it's bad juju to get piling worms now.

[gasman]

I think it's bad juju to get piling worms now.

thats to bad, because they are an awesome bait.

[Halo]

Not surprising, Awesome bait though.

[Fishaholic]

I think it's bad juju to get piling worms now.

I use piling worms and they work great. everyone says they can get you but I have been using them since I was 8 or 9 and I have never bit or whatever they say they do.

[Encore 280]

I'm almost positive it's against the law in Puget Sound nowadays but not sure about the Coast. Just didn't want anyone to get busted.

[Smossy]

I dont evfen know what pilinh worm looks like so no big deal lol.