Greenling

[Sneaky]

 

[PolarBear]

I use plastic worms that I make.  Kalin's grubs work good as well.  Rig on a jig head and cast into shallow water with plenty of kelp and or rocks.  Sand shrimp fished shallow and just off of the bottom works well.  Greenlings are mighty tasty and are excellent bait for big lings and even halibut because they don't have the spiny dorsals that other bottom fish have.  We use to catch them at the South Jetty in Westport and cook them on the rocks for lunch.  Yum, yum!

[popeshawnpaul]

They live in the weeds.  Fish in 15-30 feet.  Get right in the bull kelp forest with your light rod.  I use little 1" fish lures in about 2 oz size.  Treble hook, mooch up quick and when you feel something jam it hard and get it to the surface quick.  You'll know you are doing it right if you are getting tons of black rockfish as well.  Sometimes there are too many black rockfish and you have to move to get away from them.  Stay right on the bottom.  They like it when the lure drops to the bottom, then when you mooch up you can feel them on it and you strike.

They are great lingcod bait...  

[tmike]

After you get a few of those tell your dad you want to drift a live one over any rock outcropping and see what happens 

[PolarBear]

We use to hook them at the dorsal under a big surf bobber and let the swim around the rocks.  They usually didn't swim for long before they were gobbled up. 

[SeaRun1]

Greenling seem to get soft much more quickly then Lings and the various rockfish.  If I am going to keep Greenling then I always make sure we have ice in the cooler on the boat.  Gill them and put them right in the ice and they taste much better.  Fun fish to catch on little leadhead jigs out at Neah Bay.

SeaRun1

[HawkenBob]

They bite little Pt Wilson darts really, really good!!! Usauly the chrome works best. Either green or blue back. Get em right at the edge of the Bull krlp like Pope said. Just keep the boat a few feet away and cast in and jig it on out. They will follow them so dont just reel up fast.

[FrankDown]

I know it sounds like BS but I used to catch greenling in California on frozen green peas.  If they are the same fish they will eat frozen green peas.  Use as fine as hook as you dare and string as many peas on as you can.  Keep the peas in the cooler to keep them from getting mushy, keep them as cold as you can for as long s you can.  Ive caught ling cod, cabezon, all kinds of perch and rockfish on them, sargo/pileperch, etc.  I believe it smells or looks like kelp or just grass.  I havent tried them here though.  Theres kelp, theres greenling, so I would think it would work.  I want to try it when I get time.

[billythekidrock]

I will echo the posts above. Them little greenlings are great eating and they make great Ling bait.
We used to take em home and fillet them, then make a couple cuts to remove the pin bones, batter em up and deep fry. Awsome.

Sneaky - I say you guys should target the greenlings and then use the small ones for bait.

[FrankDown]

I didnt try this on greenling, the ones I caught were big enough to fillet easily.  Pike and chain pike we would cut into chunks and batter them, then drop them in hot oil, where its almost smoking, and cook them.  This makes the bones soft enough to eay and not notice unless the bones are heavy.

[fisheral87]

They are great lingcod bait...   Wink
 

[sisu]

Just to give you guys some general information on this family of good eating fish.
Below is a link and name for the sculpin family member that you may catch, a Cabazon. Very good eating, just don't let the greenish-blue flesh turn you off as it turns white during cooking. It's diet is mostly crab.
http://www.oceanlight.com/lightbox.php?sp=Scorpaenichthys_marmoratus

The family of marine fishes Hexagrammidae incorporates the greenlings. These fish are found on the continental shelf in the temperate or subarctic waters of the North Pacific. They are a well-known family in the littoral zone from southern California north to the Aleutian Islands. The most commercially important species is the lingcod (Ophiodon elongatus), a common food fish.

Hexagrammids are small to moderate in size, averaging around 50 cm, although the lingcod can be much larger. Like many other scorpaeniform species, they have broad, spiny pectoral, dorsal, and anal fins. They are scavengers but also catch and eat small fish and bottom-dwelling animals such as crabs. They can be found off rocky shorelines, in kelp beds, and, especially during spawning, in shallow inlets and tidepools.

The kelp greenling (Hexagrammos decagrammus) is a popular sport fish, and although it is not commercially valuable, it is considered a delicious food catch. The lingcod is long and olive-yellow in color, and has a very large, toothy mouth. The painted greenling (Oxylebius pictus) is smaller, brighter in color, and easily recognized by its large vertical red bands.

There are twelve species in five genera but I'm not going to list them all.

Hexagrammos agrammus
Kelp greenling
Rock greenling
Masked greenling
Whitespotted greenling
Lingcod
Painted greenling

[FrankDown]

I used to catch the kelp greenlings.  Once I caught one while fishing with some Korean guys, the wasabi came out and we didnt have to carry the fish home.  Sashimi.

[rasbo]

THEM ARE GOOD EATING. I got them in california off the rocks.Like sisu said when the meat turns white they are done