Moss Landing

Nice report Andy, cool looking fish. Way to go.

cool, never seen those pacific whiting before!

Cool report.   

I remember catching Hake while salmon fishing with my Dad way back in the day.  We never ate one.  In more recent years I read more about them and learned that they are extremely delicate - if you don't get them cleaned and on ice immediately they turn soft.  So that's the skinny I have on the Hake/Pacific Whiting. 

http://www.pacseafood.com/products/pac_whiting.html

the bit about the parasite turning the flesh soft seems unlikely to be true, but whatever.

http://www.pacificwhiting.org/fishery.htm

The entrance to Moss Landing/Elkhorn Slough is the closest finger of the Monterey Canyon which is a mere 75 yards offshore which is why you see so many deep water and pelagic fish so close to the shore.