Any Seasoned Lingcod Fisherman On Here?

[Fidelk]

Go to about the 4 minute point.......and check out how lingcod like to concentrate. If you hit one of these "holes/nests", you will remember it for a long time.

https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=pacific+halibut+in+the+ocean+series&&view=detail&mid=79C1394C1EAC33671FE779C1394C1EAC33671FE7&&FORM=VRDGAR&ru=%2Fvideos%2Fsearch%3Fq%3Dpacific%2520halibut%2520in%2520the%2520ocean%2520series%26form%3DSWAUA2

Wow that is a lot of Lings!

I went on a "lingcod special" (20 people max) out of Bodega Bay, CA on a boat called the Merry Jane (google it if you want to read about a cursed vessel). It was a 65' party boat and the captain called me and told me to be on board because he had found the lingcod motherload. Off to Cordell Bank we went.......once on the spot, I dropped my diamond jig with a teaser shrimp fly tied on about 2 feet above the jig. Maybe 200-250 feet of water......hit bottom, pulled it up a few feet and felt weight. Reeled up a pair of 20 lb. lings......dropped again and same result for me and a buddy. Just kept fishing and filling other people limits. The boat limited out in about 30 minutes.

I would have loved to have seen video of what this "lingcod hole" looked like.......but it must have been something like in the above video. The odd thing was that no rockfish were caught that day.......the hole must have been so full of lings that rockfish didn't dare get near the hole.

[snarkybull]

Where are you looking to fish?

[Fidelk]

Where are you looking to fish?

Possibly the most relevant question.......world of difference in close to shore in less than 120' of water and outside in 600'. I've been out of La Push in Area 2 (?) for halibut/lingcod and party boats had motored up (4 hours?) from Westport.

[highside74]

Where are you looking to fish?

In the Sound. Most likely in 13 to start.

[snarkybull]

Where are you looking to fish?

In the Sound. Most likely in 13 to start.

Gotcha.  That is outside my knowledge base.

[Fidelk]

Where are you looking to fish?

In the Sound. Most likely in 13 to start.

Tides and currents may have just reentered the calculation. No knowledge of fishing inland waters.

[TeacherMan]

First off, 90% of my experience is from Alaska. With that said, a lot of it with ling depends more on the depth you’re fishing and the feed available than the tides.

One of my favorite ways to fish for ling is in 60–90 feet of water, bump trolling with big 16–24 oz grubs. Find the black bass, and you’ve got a good place to start. We did this by varying our trolling speed from 1 to 2 mph. At the slower speeds, the jigs would often “bump” the bottom.

When we hooked a fish, we’d drop the boat into neutral, then even reverse for a second, and everyone would drop to the bottom trying to catch the mate. Big ling often run in pairs.

Now, when fishing for halibut, usually anchored in 180–340 feet of water, typically a pinical, we always did best 1–2 hours before high tide. We’d catch ling doing this as well.

Basically, we were fishing with a 20 oz cannonball and a herring, sometimes octopus or even salmon bellies.

[Fidelk]

Nice fish.....nice cheeks.

[Alchase]

Yowza, that is a beautiful Ling? 

[MADMAX]

Lapush

[Bullkllr]

Where are you looking to fish?

In the Sound. Most likely in 13 to start.

Tides and currents may have just reentered the calculation.

Basically it's fishing a saltwater river. Tides are the biggest factor. Slack tide periods are by far the most fishable.

[Crunchy]

Where are you looking to fish?

In the Sound. Most likely in 13 to start.

Tides and currents may have just reentered the calculation. No knowledge of fishing inland waters.

13 is tide dependent for lings.  Also is using live bait.  Sometimes herring sometimes sandabs

[highside74]

Where are you looking to fish?

In the Sound. Most likely in 13 to start.

Tides and currents may have just reentered the calculation. No knowledge of fishing inland waters.

13 is tide dependent for lings.  Also is using live bait.  Sometimes herring sometimes sandabs

Definitely plan on having Perch and or Herring with some Sand Dabs in the live well if and when I get out there.

[hiway_99]

Lapush

That boat looks pretty familiar

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[MADMAX]

Lapush

That boat looks pretty familiar

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 was a great time, looking forward to next year
appreciate you