puget sound lingcod

[lokidog]

Fancy!  I hope you bend the barb down before fishing.   

What's the weight on that?

[carpsniperg2]

Dam thats a Hoss!

[longknife]

Fancy!  I hope you bend the barb down before fishing.   

What's the weight on that?

Fishing out of LaPush, barbs are all good, as well as size.
This one is 16oz. I can make any specific weight, and colors. 

[hunter105]

hadn't really thought about it.  After reading the posts will probably start looking at the regs and finding time to hit the water

[Jerome]

I see that they didnt remove the 120 foot depth restriction for lings in the sound. 

[lokidog]

I see that they didnt remove the 120 foot depth restriction for lings in the sound.

Surprised?? 

Still don't know why they don't just do the depth restriction on the rockfish as well.  Hundreds of rockfish caught on my boat in the last five years in PS fishing less than 110 feet and have only landed two of the endangered ones, one was a juvenile, which the regs don't even show what they look like.

Oh yeah, better reduce the fisherman's catch of copper and quillback rockfish so the damn seals have more to eat.   

[Jerome]

I also see they have a 15 shiner perch limit.  I go through 15 in 10 minutes.

[longknife]

I see that they didnt remove the 120 foot depth restriction for lings in the sound.

Surprised?? 

Still don't know why they don't just do the depth restriction on the rockfish as well.  Hundreds of rockfish caught on my boat in the last five years in PS fishing less than 110 feet and have only landed two of the endangered ones, one was a juvenile, which the regs don't even show what they look like.

Oh yeah, better reduce the fisherman's catch of copper and quillback rockfish so the damn seals have more to eat.   

Ya, what really made me sick, was when we went 50 miles out of LaPush, they were snagging yellow eye like crazy! At 500+ feet, the stomach bursts, and they are released, floating on top of the water. Must have been 30 yelloweye floating, you think the state would put the dead to use....

[pjb3]

When is the opener? Is it the first of May?
No regs out yet so how does one know?

[lokidog]

Always May 1 for the Sound.  Wouldn't surprise me though if they tripled the wardens and changed it to May 2....

http://wdfw.wa.gov/publications/01185/wdfw01185.pdf

You can download it.

[blacktailcrzy]

well lets here it who caught the big one we we boxed out with a few 30's and six under sized fish

[lokidog]

One shorty for us.  Fishing was great... catching sucked.  Have heard of a lot of keepers caught though.

[h2ofowlr]

Damn.  I had family in town and took them over to Deception Pass State park on Sunday and was looking at the 40 or so boats under the bridge when it dawned upon me that I missed the openner.   

[xxlx7]

104" for us in our boat. One 36", one 35.5 and one 32.5. Weight 18.8 lbs, 15.9 lbs, 12.7 lbs. Not a bad day for us three!!!!

[C-Money]

Nice looking Lings xxlx7, what is the small fish?