Looking for rockfish tips

So I'm always reasearching new ways to improve my fishing. So I would like to hear any of your fishing tips for Rock fish. Would like to hear favorite lures, sizes,color, rigging ect,ect...

Diamond Jig, 4-8oz,Chrome, Big Trebble (sometimes two), fished on mono...no teasers, no bait, no little fish.

diamond jig uh? never have tried those

gitzit toro tubes....I got some & they look like the bomb for RF & lings, but I'll have to test 'em out.

I got a 5 pack of 6" gitzit tubes last year, tried jigging them in the kelp but got no bites. They are all in darker colors.

I second the diamond jig, lings love em .

Also 5-7" swimbaits (fish trap like) with 2oz+ lead heads.  I usually use just what's heavy enough to get to the bottom.  All colors, but I like white with a red head, and jig a foot or two off the bottom.

And Berkley Gulp white scented squid with the heads cut off and using a 2oz+ lead head.

I'm also interested in others responses here as well

if you want to fill up the cooler and you want RF as dumb as it sounds good old white RF feather jigs tipped with squid kick ass. Last year I pulled some nice reds on the p-line squid. Same one for 5 trips.

Also hard to beat is bait. I use a 3-way swivel with about a 6" dropper for the appropriate sinker, and a 2' leader with 2 hooks for your bait of choice. I use whole squid, or nice traybait, (anchovies, herring, sardines). When dropping this rig down into the depths you need to watch out that it doesn't tangle on itself on the way down. Once you feel the bottom, crank up a bit. Don't drag on the bottom, unless you like snagging up, breaking off, and retying.
I've had days when even the dumb ones were hard to hook, and this worked.

I also agree that bait will catch you more if you are just looking for the simple catch (I will cut up anchovies to present on 2 hooks when the bite is off or when I take a friend that doesn't fish).  But there's a certain satisfaction to getting down the techniques of presenting lures that you don't get with just jigging bait

Also, I tie off to kelp (no ff yet), and if I don't feel any strikes within a minute or so I move over a few feet and try again.  I'll usually try this in one area for 15 mins then move on to another area further down (or out or in or up).  This usually produces a good amount of fish.

moneyminnow swimbaits in 5.5 to 6 inch work well for me

Ha ha ya get a lil swimbait to catch a lil blue rockcod<then use him for lingcod bait catch a 24 inch ling and use him for lingzilla bait (or seal bait)

cool thread!

I like the metal jigs, live or dead bait, and the white shrimp flys. Putting a plastic worm, squid, or something on the flys works well too. The shrimp fly set up is pretty cheep too if you break off a lot of them.

I usually use strait mono. But now these low profile reels im going to use... Ill uni to uni 10 feet of 20# mono to the braid.

Also hard to beat is bait. I use a 3-way swivel with about a 6" dropper for the appropriate sinker, and a 2' leader with 2 hooks for your bait of choice. I use whole squid, or nice traybait, (anchovies, herring, sardines). When dropping this rig down into the depths you need to watch out that it doesn't tangle on itself on the way down. Once you feel the bottom, crank up a bit. Don't drag on the bottom, unless you like snagging up, breaking off, and retying.
I've had days when even the dumb ones were hard to hook, and this worked.

Mako, what was that lure you used out of albion last spring when me, pisci, and peteb ran into you during the Northern Boy farewell tour?  It almost looked like a pink brush hog bass lure or something.  You were pitching that toward a washrock and pulling out schoolies as we were paddling in.

Mega Bait jigs 2.5-6 oz. ... replace the trebles with singles.  Good luck.


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