puget sound lingcod

[longknife]

sorry for the ignorant question, have not got the regs yet. never heard of the depth restriction, is it less than or more than 120ft, praying its under. was gonna try monday. regardless i will read regs, just lazy for the moment.

I will guarantee he will get you on ling 15-25' of water. You will be able to watch them attack your grubtail! Very cool!

Its under 120' to not catch rockfish. I catch my ling in 15' of water anyway so I'm good

Prove it 

Tides will be good first thing in the AM so I guarantee ling in 15'

Well, I will report back after our trip whether or not you deliver  on your gaurantee 

[lokidog]

Beautiful morning on the salt.  Dropped the kids off for school and fished for about an hour.  Caught 8 rockfish and three lings, all shorts.  Had seven or eight hits with fight but lost.  Oh well, next time.

Do they have black sea bass in the sound or just the ocean?

I've never seen any other than out at Neah Bay and down the coast.  A neighbor says he and a couple others caught some around the San Juans but I have never seen it.  Not sure why they are not around here.  Caught all coppers and one quillback.

[Huckleberry]

I've seen 20 pound ling pulled out of 6' of water. Find good bait and you'll find big fish.  Many times when I'm having troubles finding them with scuba down deep I'll come up into 10-15 feet and get in the bull kelp. Killed a lot of big lings like that

[bankwalker]

i fish in nothing but 20' of water or less. being stuck fishing from the bank. but i wont complain when im averaging 7 fish a day with limited access spots that have the proper structure

[GEARHEAD]

WELL  i havnt looked at regs yet, i am still confused, ya say cant fish less than 120, but then say ya get em at 15, thinking me chain is being yanked, guess i got ta get the regs. the spot i go, i would say less than 12 feet is where i get them. discovered years ago when targeting rock cod, kept hooking lings.

[carpsniperg2]

WELL  i havnt looked at regs yet, i am still confused, ya say cant fish less than 120, but then say ya get em at 15, thinking me chain is being yanked, guess i got ta get the regs. the spot i go, i would say less than 12 feet is where i get them. discovered years ago when targeting rock cod, kept hooking lings.

I think the rule is no deeper then 125' it has to be less then 125' or so. I have only been told about the rules so I am not 100% sure. I think you can catch them in anything less then 120-125'

[lokidog]

You MAY fish for lings in 0 to 120 feet of water.  Not sure how they would enforce you being in 130 when in a lot of places that is only three feet away???

[LndShrk]

You MAY fish for lings in 0 to 120 feet of water.  Not sure how they would enforce you being in 130 when in a lot of places that is only three feet away???

Three feet away and less than one second if you are fishing the right tides.. 

[lokidog]

Finally boated a legal ling today, only 27 1/2 inches though.  Had a big one hit and bite off and landed ten others.

Self portrait, so calm out there I was able to set the camera on the back of the seat.   

[carpsniperg2]

Sweet! Congrats. They sure are a cool fish

[gasman]

Nice 

Was great fishing with you for a while today and maybe we can do it some time.

We hit the island after we left you. I finnaly landed one but it was to small 
Martin had a Hali hit his jig while fishing for lings that was bigger then the one he caught earlyier but it spit the jig 

[pjb3]

Lokidog
Did you get that of the spot we were in the AM?

[lokidog]

Pjb, sort of....  Found a spot that every time I dropped my line, I CAUGHT A FISH!  Five short lings, one legal, and seven rockfish including a 20" copper.  All from the same living-room sized spot.

Got a ten pounder today.  Hooked another bigger one that dove down three times before biting the lure off.     Released three shorts, even with the wind.  Got the keeper in a new spot I discovered while motoring home.

[MuleySniper]

That's awesome! I went out today. Slow buddy made the trip short. He didn't understand the importance of fishing the tide change. He realized when we finally made it out an hour and a half past the low that its nearly impossible to keep a descent line angle when the tide is absolutely ripping! Oh well, fun to get out and give it a try. Managed to lose a couple jigs so at least I know I made it down at least twice
MS

[lokidog]

Muley, I know it is harder to fish the current but, in the last couple years, I have noticed the lings seem to turn on more with the moving water.  I have fished an area during slack with few fish, and as soon as the current kicks in, bam the bites start.

I caught the one Sat. about 11:00 in 80 feet using a 4 oz jig with a 2 1/2 -3 1/2 knot current showing at the nearby current station.  Part of it is to make the current work for you.  The bad part is when the wind and current are opposed.  If the whole water column is moving at the same rate as the boat, your jig will cover the bottom quickly but will still be mostly under the boat.

The fast moving is tough, of course, when the depth changes quickly, especially going uphill.

BTW, it does suck when people are late or cancel all together....