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Topic: Best bait for finicky Black/Blue rockfish?  (Read 1582 times)

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I'm looking for the one that works even for that wonky 1%

Speargun shaft to the face...you know that.

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You don't know how bad I wanted my dive gear and speargun to drop down into that scene! There must have been hundreds to thousands of them


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I'm looking for the one that works even for that wonky 1%

Speargun shaft to the face...you know that.

#ForceFedSteel

 :smt002

 :smt005

 :smt006

Sincerely,

Jim

You don't know how bad I wanted my dive gear and speargun to drop down into that scene! There must have been hundreds to thousands of them

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How do you know it was a school of rockfish if you didn't catch any...Maybe they were too small or it was something else?

Surface viz was probably 20 ft give or take.  I could see them circling and chasing my jigs up from the depths.  I tried everything with what I had, flys with and without squid, casting and retrieving, and trolling for nada.  I don't usually target blacks and blues because they are usually the majority of what you catch up there. It was an odd weekend though, I caught (and released) some real nice sized yellow eyes, china cods,  but for whatever reason the big blacks just weren't biting.  There was also a ton of bait in the water, so perhaps they had gorged themselves already.



I'm def gonna try small kastmasters that I usually use for trout.  A trout rod and reel sound like a hoot, but it would be one more thing to pack.......

#8 or 6 sabiki...

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How do you know it was a school of rockfish if you didn't catch any...Maybe they were too small or it was something else?

Surface viz was probably 20 ft give or take.  I could see them circling and chasing my jigs up from the depths.  I tried everything with what I had, flys with and without squid, casting and retrieving, and trolling for nada.  I don't usually target blacks and blues because they are usually the majority of what you catch up there. It was an odd weekend though, I caught (and released) some real nice sized yellow eyes, china cods,  but for whatever reason the big blacks just weren't biting.  There was also a ton of bait in the water, so perhaps they had gorged themselves already.



I'm def gonna try small kastmasters that I usually use for trout.  A trout rod and reel sound like a hoot, but it would be one more thing to pack.......

#8 or 6 sabiki...

Yeah, that's what I was going to say.

-Allen


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Probably find some sabikis` in Bushys` Fish lair ..he`s got everything else in there  :smt002 

haha might have it, good luck finding it!

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