I am looking for advice or suggestions and special techniques. I am scheduled to fish on 1 July which is the first day of LINGCOD season, I am on a 6 pack for HALIBUT, LINGCOD and ROCKFISH, it is a full day trip, I will be using all boat supplied equipment.
Thanks,
Gene
BYTE ME
Byte Me; Nothing special needed! It’s all bottom fishing. You use about 1 lb of lead to get a circle hook baited with a filleted out salmon to the bottom and hang on! You may be dropping in 300 ft of water so you don’t want to be checking on your bait real often. Last time I was there you could only keep 1 Ling per day and they had to be at least 3 ft long to keep. Don’t keep the first one you catch unless it is around 45 lbs. You will spend the rest of the day throwing back 50 lb’ers if you do:smiley: Make sure that when you get the fish cleaned you ask for the cheeks! Good eating there![URL=http://s1359.photobucket.com/user/Ellis536/media/996075951310_zps982ed587.jpg.html]
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Also be careful of your halibut. You get to keep two but there is no size limit, so make sure you keep the biguns.
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Thanks, I have been wanting to do this trip for years and it is finally going to happen.
BYTE ME
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Originally posted by EasyByte Me; Nothing special needed! It’s all bottom fishing. You use about 1 lb of lead to get a circle hook baited with a filleted out salmon to the bottom and hang on! You may be dropping in 300 ft of water so you don’t want to be checking on your bait real often. Last time I was there you could only keep 1 Ling per day and they had to be at least 3 ft long to keep. Don’t keep the first one you catch unless it is around 45 lbs. You will spend the rest of the day throwing back 50 lb’ers if you do:smiley: Make sure that when you get the fish cleaned you ask for the cheeks! Good eating there![URL=http://s1359.photobucket.com/user/Ellis536/media/996075951310_zps982ed587.jpg.html]
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Dammit, if I didnt know better I would have thought you were bottom fishing on the Teaser!!! Looks like a mess of gags, a few ARS, and monster doormat flounders. The “Caught at Seward, Alaska” sort of gives it away.
Yeah, that was a mess of meat fish. That picture was taken in August and the temp was mid 50s. Byte Me, is going to Homer which is over on the other side of the peninsula. He’ll be OK, if the bars on the Spit don’t get him first:face_with_head_bandage:
The Teaser never had a meat fish day like that. My goal for that trip was to send 100 lbs of fillets home. 3 of us went up and 300 lbs of fillets came home. Bucket List # 4
I fished out of Whittier, Alaska 7 or 8 years ago. We had a very good captain–his boat was the “Swee’ Pea”. The rivers/inlets are glacierly carved–we would be a 100 yards from land and would be in 200 - 500 ft. Pretty wild.
The flounders there are a trash fish. I put a live 3 or 4 lber on the circle hook and sent him down, ended up catching the biggest of the day which was 86 lbs.
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