puget sound lingcod

[h20hunter]

Most keyword searches on good ol Google show diet being why they turn green. Sounds good enough for me.

[lokidog]

Update....

Caught five or six shorts while shrimping Wed.  Had one big fish rip out about 15 feet of line then bite the jig off.   

Fished for 7 minutes today on the way to town to work on the catfishing boat and caught this guy, not a ling but next best thing.  Eight pounds, 22 inch Cabezon.

[carpsniperg2]

Thats a nice looking fish

[lokidog]

Thats a nice looking fish

Thanks, it's too bad 2/3 of the weight is in the head and guts... just shy of three pounds of meat.  It will go well with fried shrimp tomorrow night.   

[carpsniperg2]

Yeah a guy looses a lot of meat in the head and junk parts of the fish Neat little bugger. Only ever seen a couple pic's of them.

[pjb3]

Good job Lokidog
I have never caught one in this area, really want one though, very good eatin
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[h20hunter]

Nice cab, personally, I like to catch them but not much of a fan of eating them.

[Sneaky]

Nice cabezon! Tasty, but you really don't get a whole lot off em once you subtract guts just like you mentioned!

Made some new jigs tonight to try this weekend.

Flutter Jigs




And.....lights out

[lokidog]

Neat jigs.  It'd be interesting to see if they do better than just a white one.

Crappy fishing day today. too much wind opposite the current while shrimping.  Boat had three fish on but all self-released.

[Sneaky]

Neat jigs.  It'd be interesting to see if they do better than just a white one.

Crappy fishing day today. too much wind opposite the current while shrimping.  Boat had three fish on but all self-released.

I was thinking the same thing about the jigs - Testing them out at the coast isn't much of a test seeing as there are way more fish available than inside, but we had great success with the UV/Glow models I came up with this year compared to previous years.


Lets hope for some calmer weather in the coming week!

[bankwalker]

Update....

Caught five or six shorts while shrimping Wed.  Had one big fish rip out about 15 feet of line then bite the jig off.   

Fished for 7 minutes today on the way to town to work on the catfishing boat and caught this guy, not a ling but next best thing.  Eight pounds, 22 inch Cabezon.

i have been catching alot and i mean alot of cabezon this season in elliot bay. usually 1 every 3 trips. and all from the bank.

[lokidog]

What kind of size are you getting on those Bankwalker? 

In the last five years we've only boated about six of them.  A couple years ago my dad and I caught a 10 and 14 pounder on the same spot about ten minutes apart.  He was pretty thrilled.

[bankwalker]

nothing huge by any means. most have been between 4-8lbs. and i seen one around 14lb caught a couple days ago.

the lings have really slowed down the last 2 weeks which is unusual for the area i fish. it normally gets red hot as the season goes on....and the kelp starts to really grow. but colder temps is keeping the kelp from really growing and the bait fish just havent showed up yet. also we usually catch alot of bullheads for bait and have yet to catch a sinlge one this season....

im still averaging one 30+ inch ling hooked everyday where i fish. and not very many undersized fish this season. everything has been at least 30inch or well oversized

[lokidog]

Congrats on the catching Bankwalker.

[lokidog]

Well, haven't posted on this one for a while since I have not been fishing for lings but....  at least I can do better on these than the catfish in the Palouse.  Had 20 minutes extra coming from town to pick my daughter up at the bus stop so i figured might as well check out a couple of new rocks I marked a couple weeks ago.  Second one I tried, this guy decided he wanted to play.  Ten pounds, 29 inches long.   

And, I've got more crab bait, woohoo!