Santa Cruz 8/19/13

Nothing too impressive, but I caught some rockfish and one decent lingcod, all released. I was fishing in the neighborhood of lighthouse point, from 30 fow out to about 65'. A video can be found here:

The best one starts about 39 seconds in.

very nice! looks like you had a lot of rock cod action, You certainly don't look board. thanks for sharing. can't wait to get back out on the water.

very nice! looks like you had a lot of rock cod action, You certainly don't look board. thanks for sharing. can't wait to get back out on the water.

There were a couple other rockfish that I didn't manage to get on video due to technical reasons (like pushing the wrong button on the gopro).

Anyways, definitely not bored, but 5 hours of fishing, 1 hour of video, reduced to 4 minutes might be a little bit deceptive...

Nice video, props on the C&R. What were you drifting? Looks like a plug.

I've been thinking of trying to catch some rockfish the same method you were using. Now I have the validation that it will work. Thanks for the video.

Jedmo

Thanks for the non-stop fish porns Mark.

Great video, thanks for sharing

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Nice video, props on the C&R. What were you drifting? Looks like a plug.

Yes, in the video, it's a standard floating rapala, 5" size---remember to remove the middle treble hook. Slow trolling with about 12 oz of weight seems to work from 30' to over 60' depths (I caught the lingcod in the video in 65 fow). I try to keep it as vertical as possible while still regularly bumping the bottom, but not dragging across the bottom. If the swells are small, I'll occasionally rock the boat just to get a little more erratic movement.

To avoid getting hung up requires careful attention to the ff, and being able to pedal probably helps too although you can certainly drift, provided conditions are right. And, when cruising at speed, it's a quick change to a 16 oz weight and let out more line. Then you can slow down and bump the bottom if you see anything interesting (and not too snaggy) on the fish finder.

Now if I can just get it to work on those finicky halibut...

Interesting set up thanks for the info 

Great day and vid. thanks for posting. The set up sounds productive and interesting. Thanks for sharing and will look forward to giving it a try

Something different, very cool (and productive)!

Trolling floating diver lures works.  After I lost a couple of halibut to the weak hooks on cheap lures, I've learned to change them out, and I think you're right - remove the front treble, if for no other reason than to avoid getting it snagged on yourself.
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I used that technique twice and I slammed the lings on both. trips  Two 12lbs and two 14 lbs.  To tired to post but it was on the incoming to high.  Plus I put pro cure anchovie gel on the lure. Might of made it even smell like a piece of bait.

Very nice! Thank you for sharing!