Gagger Lings...

[popeshawnpaul]

A gagger lingcod will be available for you to catch next year.  I dove the Kehloken wreck off Possession Point yesterday and spied about a 48" linger...big headed female.  I had my gun with me but those weren't in season...grr.  I'll be diving there next May...

For those of you wanting black bass, there were thousands on this sunken ferry boat...

[robodad]

Not worth fishing black bass anymore with the limit only 1, although if ling cod was open it might be worth adding 1 to the creel !!

[DeKuma]

You need to get a good underwater camera Pope!  Would love to see some of the places you dive, without having to dive myself, as I have this un-natural fear of diving...........

[robodad]

A gagger lingcod will be available for you to catch next year.  I dove the Kehloken wreck off Possession Point yesterday and spied about a 48" linger...big headed female.  I had my gun with me but those weren't in season...grr.  I'll be diving there next May...

For those of you wanting black bass, there were thousands on this sunken ferry boat...

I hook several a year off a shipwreck that are too big to keep, they are a blast and likely my favorite fish to eat as well.

Lose a ton of gear though 

[popeshawnpaul]

I would but I'm almost always carrying my spear gun, a scallop net, and watching over my wife or dive buddy.  It would be too much for me to carry.  I guess I could get an underwater housing for my elph...  How about I just go over to Canada, shoot the huge lings and halibut, and show you the pictures of them in my hand?  

[DeKuma]

I would but I'm almost always carrying my spear gun, a scallop net, and watching over my wife or dive buddy.  It would be too much for me to carry.  I guess I could get an underwater housing for my elph...  How about I just go over to Canada, shoot the huge lings and halibut, and show you the pictures of them in my hand?  

Well, umm, no.  Not the same. 
One of these days I will get back out and fish them again!

[MuleySniper]

I think all bottom fishing should be closed around the puget sound for four or five years. The numbers are low and the age for a female sea bass to reach full maturity is around eight years I believe. Even longer for males if I read it correctly. Im not sure about Lings. I see guys fishing near the Narrows when its open (for a short season), even then, I'm not sure what the success rates are on catching "mature" fish.
MS

[Professor Chaos]

I think all bottom fishing should be closed around the puget sound for four or five years. The numbers are low and the age for a female sea bass to reach full maturity is around eight years I believe. Even longer for males if I read it correctly. Im not sure about Lings. I see guys fishing near the Narrows when its open (for a short season), even then, I'm not sure what the success rates are on catching "mature" fish.
MS

I agree completely...  Not only does there need to be some time given for these stocks to rebuild but as well as the strait and out to Neah/La Push.  With the poor salmon fishing the past few years out there, the bottom fish have been getting hammered.