The other lingcod season

Okay, this isn't really a kayak fishing post, but I believe I've seen a few surf fishing reports here before.   So just think of this as pre-season research for when the kayak season reopens.

Anyway, all of this talk about the new DFG regs has gotten me excited and I thought I'd share a recent catch from the other lingcod season that opened on April 1 (for shore-based fishermen).

I've been fishing at sunset from the Bodega Harbor jetty when the weather has been nice with some friends from work.  Mostly we catch small rockfish and undersized lings.  Since the lingcod season opened on April 1, I've been fishing larger swimbaits (5"-7" fish traps) with little or no luck on the larger fish.  After about an hour of the large baits, I usually switch over to a 3" fish trap so that I can sooth my ego by catching a few rockfish.

On tuesday I caught a couple small rockfish and two undersized lings (~17" and 22") and right about when I decided to go home I switched to a smaller lure and made a few more casts and manged my first legal ling of the year.  


30" lingcod from Bodega jetty.

If anybody else wants to try some pre-season "research" up here let me know.

Brian

Way to go, didn't realize you were one of 'us'.  

I'm plotting to shoot one if the #$#@@# ocean would lay down for once.  Pop some abs too...

Way to go, didn't realize you were one of 'us'.  

I'm not sure what you mean by "one of 'us'".  Did I just become a memeber in another club?  Are there benefits?

Oh, never mind, I just saw your subject line.  Yeah, I do a bit of both types of fishing and visit both forums.  I posted on PFIC becuase of the whole "who is going to catch the first legal ling?" post.  Seemed that nobody else had yet.    

With all the talk about the rockfish opener here on the NCKA site I thought I might as well get some more mileage out of my fish.

-Brian

nice job, nice fish.

In 2004 many of us were saying "would've been legal last year".  Same is true of this first ling of the year.