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General => Fish Talk => Topic started by: redwoodfox on January 13, 2011, 09:25:11 AM

Title: Lingcod tough guy
Post by: redwoodfox on January 13, 2011, 09:25:11 AM
I love lings! they got such an attitude

 Lingcod Attack! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWPKxhPL-Wc#)
Title: Re: Lingcod tough guy
Post by: EWB on January 13, 2011, 10:14:30 AM
now I know how my jig feels
Title: Re: Lingcod tough guy
Post by: redwoodfox on January 13, 2011, 10:19:15 AM
 Almost makes me feel sorry for all those little greenlings i've used for ling bait...... Almost
Title: Re: Lingcod tough guy
Post by: fungunnin on January 13, 2011, 10:36:37 AM
That is a male guarding the eggs. They get very aggressive in the winter when sitting on eggs.  That is a brute of a male too. A 15 pound male is about the as big as they get. He is not that big but good size. That old guy has been in his fair share of battles look at the chunks missing from his dorsal fin.
Title: Re: Lingcod tough guy
Post by: Wldrnshntr on January 13, 2011, 11:26:27 AM
That was awesome to watch, wish I could get down there with them.
Title: Re: Lingcod tough guy
Post by: redwoodfox on January 13, 2011, 11:29:23 AM
That was awesome to watch, wish I could get down there with them.
I'm just getting into free diving an I can't wait to see my first underwater ling
Title: Re: Lingcod tough guy
Post by: PISCEAN on January 13, 2011, 11:34:33 AM
he's giving the camera the 1000 yard stare

cool vid!
Title: Re: Lingcod tough guy
Post by: FisHunter on February 15, 2011, 02:41:28 PM
i am scared of them now......that thing was gonna bite something= cool vid and thanks for the details fungunnin. :smt002
Title: Re: Lingcod tough guy
Post by: PISCEAN on February 15, 2011, 04:19:23 PM
We're lucky they only get as big as they do.

Can you imagine a 200-300 pound lingcod?

"a little shakin, a little tenderizin...down you go"
 :smt044
Title: Re: Lingcod tough guy
Post by: FisHunter on February 15, 2011, 04:29:11 PM
We're lucky they only get as big as they do.

Can you imagine a 200-300 pound lingcod?

"a little shakin, a little tenderizin...down you go"
 :smt044
they would be more dangerous than the GWS itself......i wonder if they were larger sized way back when Meglodon swam the depths?  it seems that everything in the ocean was once larger than today. =  did caveman get gobbled up by sea monsters?
Title: Re: Lingcod tough guy
Post by: MANBEARPIG on February 15, 2011, 04:33:58 PM
That video is why I want to dive AND why I dont want to dive all in one. Lings are like little pit bulls that never give up, I saw a video in alaska of someone pulling in a huge halibut with a ling chompin away at it.  He wouldn't let go and they pulled both fish into the boat!!  :smt005
Title: Re: Lingcod tough guy
Post by: matt mattison on February 15, 2011, 04:36:01 PM
Very cool vid like some one else said I tend to think he was gaurding eggs !
Title: Re: Lingcod tough guy
Post by: Garety on March 03, 2011, 08:09:15 PM
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That video is why I want to dive AND why I dont want to dive all in one. Lings are like little pit bulls that never give up, I saw a video in alaska of someone pulling in a huge halibut with a ling chompin away at it.  He wouldn't let go and they pulled both fish into the boat!! 

I have a friend up in humbolt county that was fishing for lings last summer, and hooked a ~33 inch ling, and had a ~40 inch ling that latched on to the 33 incher mid fight, and did not let go till it was in the boat... yeah they are pretty voracious.
Title: Re: Lingcod tough guy
Post by: Fish Flogger on March 07, 2011, 05:58:41 PM
Such an awesome video. Thanks for sharing. Those fish are bad a$$

-ff
Title: Re: Lingcod tough guy
Post by: fuzz on March 07, 2011, 06:53:01 PM
On Saturday, we came across a cool 10# lingcod that seemed pretty friendly.  It would come out as soon as we hit bottom & hang around for as long as we could hold our breath.  Unfortunately my battery died on my headcam just as it decided to swim up and do a staredown with me from 2-3" away.   :smt010

I kept thinking "what a friendly ling, he wants to be friends!"   :smt004

Big Jim came up from a dive... "did you see all those eggs under the ledge!"    :smt009


Faithful guardian, the lingcod kept coming out to challenge us... and we kept sticking around because we thought he wanted to play.   :smt005
Title: Re: Lingcod tough guy
Post by: fungunnin on March 08, 2011, 08:31:17 AM
That's cool! A ten pound ling guarding eggs is a BIG male! This isn't his first rodeo and it is pretty late in the spawn season so he is probably feeling a bit lethargic from not eating. Two months ago he would have bull rushed you and made it very clear that he wasn't waiting for a tea party.  :smt003

Seems like the entire coastal populations of lings are doing pretty well.
Title: Re: Lingcod tough guy
Post by: BigJim on March 08, 2011, 08:54:38 AM
That's cool! A ten pound ling guarding eggs is a BIG male! This isn't his first rodeo and it is pretty late in the spawn season so he is probably feeling a bit lethargic from not eating. Two months ago he would have bull rushed you and made it very clear that he wasn't waiting for a tea party.  :smt003

Seems like the entire coastal populations of lings are doing pretty well.

It was SUPER cool!! I had already shot my limit but when I paddled up and fuzz told me there was a big ling down there that was friendly I had to jump back in!!  :smt003

Course, when I'm trying to look all cool in front of Harold and Nate my mask starts leaking water my first few dives down and I gotta come back up right when I get down to the big boy!  :smt009 :smt010  :smt005 :smt044

Finally fix my mask and drop down next to harold and nate and see the big guys tail poking out...touch the tail and he turns around and puts his face right in mine!!  Then over his shoulder, back in the hole, I see the white cauiliflower looking mass of eggs!!

He had no interest in food at all...even when a small fresjly killed blue was waved in his snout he wanted nothing to do with it...not interested in eating at all, just in protecting his babies.

Good daddy!!!

Second biggest Ling I have seen underwater...and was really cool to have such a long interaction with him instead of just shooting at him!!!

Thanks again to fuzz and spinal tap for helping me have that experience!!

 :smt006

Sincerely,

Jim
Title: Re: Lingcod tough guy
Post by: fungunnin on March 08, 2011, 10:26:09 AM
If it was a huge male imagine the size of the female! his other half was probably a high 30 - 40" fish! or bigger!

I love the ocean!
Title: Re: Lingcod tough guy
Post by: BigJim on March 08, 2011, 10:36:23 AM
If it was a huge male imagine the size of the female! his other half was probably a high 30 - 40" fish! or bigger!

I love the ocean!

+1

 :smt007 :smt007 :smt007

 :smt006

Sincerely,

Jim
Title: Re: Lingcod tough guy
Post by: PISCEAN on March 08, 2011, 11:01:11 AM
Cool story Jim & Fuzz!