Best pier or jetty for rockfish/crab opportunities?

Thanks! 

I used to fish the hell out of both the North and South jetties of Humboldt Bay.  Those jetties can produce some hawg rockfish, cabs, and lings at times.  There's always greenling and striped perch to be had as well, but this all hinges on what the waves/swells are doing and the tides.  Outgoing tides RIP through there, so in general you want to fish from the bottom of the low through the incoming or during a slow outgoing.  Texas-rigged flukes and other plastics could slay from those rocks.

Rock Hopper mentioned PFIC.  That's where I used to post my jetty rockfish reports.  Do a search for "Humboldt jetty" with "Clayman" as the author, and you'll see what I'm talking about  .

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I have caught lings to 28lbs, blacks to 6+lbs, and have caught many salmon up to 30lbs when the bait is nearby.

:O i live in the wrong part of the state

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I have caught lings to 28lbs, blacks to 6+lbs, and have caught many salmon up to 30lbs when the bait is nearby.

No pics didn't happen, 

FWIW - I also hooked a ling that was substantially bigger than the one above from the end of the doran jetty.

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I have caught lings to 28lbs, blacks to 6+lbs, and have caught many salmon up to 30lbs when the bait is nearby.

No pics didn't happen, 

No PFIC posts either? WTF 

I can keep anything I catch from the Jetty correct? I know rockfish is closed if I take them from a kayak, but I can keep them anywhere that I'm shore/jetty/pier fishing correct?

Yup, as long as your fish are of legal size.

Even though my fishing partner won't have a yak, I am considering taking mine just for the purpose of dropping some pots for dungees. I was going to drop them 100-200 yards off of the jetty where we could still someone see them. Will that produce? or am I living a pipe dream on that one? I know normally pots are dropped quite far from there. I've never crabbed anywhere near Bodega.

Most crabbing at Doran is done within site of the jetties. You don't need to go out too far at all....IF the crab are around.

Pier rat.