Rockfish

When does Rockfish season end?

I know in Monterey  South-Central Area

Closed in all water depth January-June and December

Open July-November

BOO HOO

Open year round for shore fishing and any type diving except for lings.

Guys,  you need to be more careful reading your regs...
DFG can change regs anytime they want.   Sometimes those changes are actually in our favor.  For example, in April of this year DFG reviewed its new creel surveys and decided that most of us could continue fishing for rockfish until the end of the year.

Here's the news release..
http://www.dfg.ca.gov/news/news05/05025.html


When in doubt check the website.  There's a nice map that will help you find your management area and all the current regs.
http://www.dfg.ca.gov/mrd/fishing_map.html

Better yet, give the hotline a call before you go.. (831) 649-2801 for groundfish (including rockfish)  or (707) 576-3429 for ocean salmon regs.

or sign up for the Marine Management News Letter
http://www.dfg.ca.gov/mrd/subscribe.html

Technically, they can change the regulations one day and if you didn't bother to call or check the website and end up violating the new reg you can still get cited.  

Brian

P.S. enjoy rockfishing this December but remember that lingcod does close at the end of November.  (For those in the big ling pool, I think I read that it closes for you at the end of October   )

I get the newsletter.  It can be helpful.  Like we were surprised that there is a commercial fishery for cabezon since I never see it on menus.
  Pat

Like we were surprised that there is a commercial fishery for cabezon since I never see it on menus.
  Pat

A lot of chinese restaurants have live sculpin/cabezon on the menu.

-Allen

Big fish ling pool ends Oct 31?...  Gee, I guess I shouldn't have signed up in the last few days...     Good karma for next years pool anyway!  Hopefully I'll be going on Sunday or Monday.  

Like we were surprised that there is a commercial fishery for cabezon since I never see it on menus.
  Pat

A lot of chinese restaurants have live sculpin/cabezon on the menu.

-Allen

sculpin = cabezon ???

 

I didn't know!

Big fish ling pool ends Oct 31?...  Gee, I guess I shouldn't have signed up in the last few days...     Good karma for next years pool anyway!  Hopefully I'll be going on Sunday or Monday.  

Never trust the leader of a contest. Big fish pool is not over until Dec. 31st although lings of course can't be caught out of season.

They can be weighed and photographed after oct though.  

I see cabbies in asian restraunts all the time in the southbay.  You have to go to a decent one tho, not mr chaus...  Check mayflower or ABC seafood in milpitas.

sculpin = cabezon ???

I didn't know!

Cabazon is in the sculpin family.

-Allen

Foodnet, an Asian market in San Leandro, sells live Cabezon out of fish tanks... amongst other things like live sturgeon, black bass, carp, lobster, crabs, etc.

Foodnet, an Asian market in San Leandro, sells live Cabezon out of fish tanks... amongst other things like live sturgeon, black bass, carp, lobster, crabs, etc.

I'd love to kidnap the president of PETA and tie 'em on a chair and leave 'em in front of the checkstand  

Seriously fellas, if I hooked into a large ling after Dec 1, I could not weigh it and photograph it for the pool, could I????.......
Pat