Humbolt vis offshore

Is there structure a mile or so off shore that is shallow enough to hunt. Is the visibility better out there or is it bad out there also?

Is there structure a mile or so off shore that is shallow enough to hunt. Is the visibility better out there or is it bad out there also?

Excellent questions.  First, I'd point out that there aren't sea stacks or even wash rocks a mile off of Shelter Cove.  If you get in the water out there you're in wide open water, no doubt about that.  About 1/2-3/4 mile right out from The Tides Inn toward the Whistle Buoy there is a reef that comes up to 25-30' or so.  I've never seen anyone dive there, and I'd never dive there.  Too deep and too wide open for me.  The vis is a little better than in shore, but there's generally not a huge vis break right off the Cove.  If the weather is nice and the water's average we'll have 8-15' out there, but I've caught fish in very low vis off shore probably as much as I've caught them in super-clear 30-40' vis...  We'll hope for that 30' vis in shore, but I'll settle for 4-6 and call it good.   

I've dove offshore of Shelter Cove.  Its been about 15 years ago but there is a sea mount about 6 miles out and south a little.  I remember a matching pair of 12# Vermilions.   The top was 60 feet but most of the divable area was in the 80 foot range.  DcBatt

redding rock?

Redding rock off Trinidad holds lots of lings, big rockfish (if the lings don't get your offering first) and lots of scallops.  Only fished there once, mostly 60-80 feet, but didn't catch too many rockfish (ones we did catch were in the 7-8 lb. range) because the lings were so aggressive there.  My friend has done tank dives out there and taken many scallops.

My dad commercial fished the Trinidad area and extensively at Redding rock. It is 12-15 miles north of Trinidad and is legendary for Lings with shoulders, as well as other denizens of the deep.

I'm not sure how much I believe it but I've been told that south of the Humbloldt Jetty down and past the Cape there were many pinnacles. So many that the dragger fleets were hanging thee nets up in them. They innovated their nets with Ginormous aircraft type balloon tires to roll up and over the Pinnacles. One of the side effects was that they caused many of them to topple over, destroying prime habitat and hurting there own industry. I got this straight from the one of the dragger Capt's. I find it hard to believe a boat and net could do that but that's the story