Favorite Ling & RF Lure Color(s)

What's your favorite Ling lure color pattern?

What's your favorite RF lure color pattern?

Looking to change up my colors/offerings to the fish god's.

   I've almost exclusively used a rootbeer/gold flake or pure white. 

I imagine you'll get a wide range of color suggestions here, but for what it's worth: green pumpkin with a bit of chartreuse or some other bright color to provide a stark contrast has been my go-to rockfish/ling lure color.  I'm a firm believer in plastics that have contrasting colors on them (versus a bait that's only one color).

When they don't want that, I'll try a white/pearl colored bait.

8oz Chrome diamond jig all day long.  I like using the heavier irons to get deep faster and stay vertical.

Swimbaits when I'm too tired to keep jigging the iron.

Josh

Good suggestions.  I've found myself in a "rut" as far as color choices are concerned.  I want to "force" myself out of this rut just because "Ive caught one on this color, I'm going to stick with this color".  I'll be heading out of Moss this weekend heading towards Monterey for some PB fishing this weekend so it'll be a good chance to try something new.

I always carry a few assorted diam. bars.  This will be a lite tackle weekend trip fishing with my trusty carrot stix "bass rods".

I need to work on lure presentation/action more the remainder of this year as pasrt of my personal "action plan"

my go to colors are Calico Hunter, Red Calico Hunter, Senorita, Toast, and Hot Karl. I mostly use the 6.5" Big Hammers but I am starting to use the 9" Sledge Hammers.

Have had great success on the rootbeer/flake BH 4-6" swim baits w/ 3-4 oz jig heads on rockfish. Lings with the giant double tail grubs (don't know the name - Castro Valley Sportsman store has several colors) and various painted and unpainted bars (switched treble hooks for single hooks, and haven't lost one since). My pop gave me some giant rubber skirts in different colors (like the ones on bass jigs) to throw on jigs w/ swim baits, and it seems to work better? Or maybe I'm just fishing better locations

The Ahi Diamond Assault jig became my favorite jig last year for RF and also worked on several lings as well.

This is my favorite color here

I love fishing 4-6oz chrome diamond jigs.

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and pearl in the 9"
big RF hit them...big cabby's hit them
lings trash them

What's your favorite Ling lure color pattern?

What's your favorite RF lure color pattern?

I've had good luck with these in the photo.

This will be a lite tackle weekend trip fishing with my trusty carrot stix "bass rods".

Thats about as good as it gets.  1-4 oz chrome diamond igs cast into the drift, get em deep in the rocks and bang em around in there till you're vertical and retrieve then repeat. don't be afraid to lose a few jigs, its bottom fishing, it happens.  Creature baits, ol school jig n pig combos and 3" grubs on a jighead are a ton of fun on school fish.

I really need to break out my bass rods again 
   

Been doing it for years.  Cut my teeth on deep-drop RF fishing from the Monterey meat boats way back when.  400+ feet  12-16oz weights on 4-hook yellow/red yarn jigs (which were all made by my uncle at the time for all the party boats in Monterey/Santa Cruz).

I like lite tackle now.  Never perfected the presentation of big hammers yet.  I have to resist the temptation to just throw a shrimp fly rig on & a couple hunks of bait    I just don't take the "bait" rigs anymore so I am forcing myself to fish lures only.

Been doing it for years.  Cut my teeth on deep-drop RF fishing from the Monterey meat boats way back when.  400+ feet  12-16oz weights on 4-hook yellow/red yarn jigs (which were all made by my uncle at the time for all the party boats in Monterey/Santa Cruz).

Too funny, I just dug up some of my old gear, yarn fly gangions and 16-24 oz bars. 

We used to fish the islands and cordell banks, lol, shallow water local trips were Deep Reef outta hmb 250-300'.  I was an impressionable teen in the early 90's when charter boats started fishing shallow, I was all over light tackle craze.  Started buying up flippin rods and garcia 3000's, then pushed the envelope with micro light trout gear.  Pitched alot of small tube baits, grubs and small spoons. 1 oz diamond jigs weren't too common so I used to buy small torpedo weights and hammer them flat to make em flutter.  Did alot of crankbaits on 3-way rigs too but that gets expensive when you're a kid.

Good times......I need to get back to that.

to provide a stark contrast has been my go-to rockfish/ling lure color.  I'm a firm believer in plastics that have contrasting colors on them (versus a bait that's only one color).

When they don't want that, I'll try a white/pearl colored bait.

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When down south my go to is the pearl big hammer. Chartreuse white or glow jig head  just sayin..... Good luck this weekend homie