BH Sunday 9/23

Launched at about 10:00 this morning, the water was nice with a slow drift. Tried out my new fish finder and it worked great. Found plenty of rock fish about a mile out from the launch and a bonus 29" ling. Got the ling on a swim bait and most of the r-fish on shrimp flies without bait.

John

The Water

Very nice,

 looks like you had a better day than yesterday

BH condition looks much better today than Sat. Were you out alone? for how many hours? Thanks for the report.

Do you know how many feet of water you were in for the RF? I got as deep as 90 feet but found the blue rockfish in a big school in about 60 feet (but then lost them again after landing a few). good job using the shrimpflys and swimbaits, I should have stuck with those yesterday, I kept trying iron and still only catching small fish, just less of them.

John,

I had read some reports here suggesting the shrimp flies, I tried one hook with bait (squid) and one without, after two fish on the baitless hook the bait stayed on the boat.
There was a 50-60 ft high spot among 70-80 ft one mile from the beach that had blues and olives on it and a ling!
The fish finder showed some good sized schools there, I released 7 or 8 and kept 5 nothing huge. I was on the water for 2.5 hours.

SWEET Conditions and Excellent OUTING!   That's the spot the pays for me! and have seen others do good too.
thanks for the pics. and details.
..went there sat. in hopes of conditions like these.....Way to time it right, (like i should of)

John,

I had read some reports here suggesting the shrimp flies, I tried one hook with bait (squid) and one without, after two fish on the baitless hook the bait stayed on the boat.
There was a 50-60 ft high spot among 70-80 ft one mile from the beach that had blues and olives on it and a ling!
The fish finder showed some good sized schools there, I released 7 or 8 and kept 5 nothing huge. I was on the water for 2.5 hours.

Ah, that sounds like I found that same spot the day before and caught olives and blues too, but had more difficulty finding it again reliably than you did, sticking with what worked (small lure) and if I got a ling hooked (felt like it a couple times), did not land one!

Thanks for showing how it should be done! 

Best,
J