Fished with Rob Perkin last Friday. Great guy. As far as saltwater trips go, this one is a high numbers deal!
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I was a bit concerned we wouldn't be able to launch with the 4+ foot surf, but it was a pretty easy and a great day to be out there. Fairly overcast and foggy, but no wind and the swells were manageable.
Short boat ride and the fish were right where they were supposed to be. Most of the time the sounder was lit up more than this.
My goal for the trip was a ling cod. I started out with a large chartreuse and blue over white Flymen fish skull nayat fly about 4 or 5 inches long. Figured that would be a good size for both rockfish and lings. It was. I was hooked up almost right away with several rockfish. Soon my buddy was in on it too.
Didn't take too long before I got my first ever ling. Just shy of the 22 inch minimum.
I got hung up and broke off that fly - don't use 40# like the intrawebs suggest for lings. It is really hard to break it off. I ordered some jig heads for ling "flies." Had no idea what I needed so I went big. 1.5 ounces is certainly big enough!
The lings loved this thing! The rockfish wouldn't touch it tho - 7 inches seems to be too big for the rockfish? I got 4 or 5 more lings before things slowed down at slack tide. It is just a habit to pinch barbs before I put a hook in the vise. Lost my biggest ling - about 25" - right at the boat when the hook slid out. Here is another smaller one but a keeper.
At one point my buddy noticed some fish on the surface. We motored over and it didn't take long to get some on top. The coolest one was a fish that was just 6 inches below the fly staring at it - at first I thought it was a jellyfish. I gave it a little twitch (I was using a hover fly line so the popper would dive - seemed to be the ticket as my friend didn't get any takes and was using the same fly on a floating line) and it kind of half heartedly sucked in the fly. I could still see the fly sticking out of its mouth so I didn't set the hook. I gave it a little tug and when the fly popped out a bigger fish slammed it. Rob got it on video. You can't see it as well as we could with polarized glasses on.
I think I got 4 on top - one was a really cool breaching take.
Then we headed out to fish for salmon. We got more wild fish than hatchery but ended up with 3 in the cooler along with 8 rockfish and I think 3 lings.
We will certainly do this trip again!
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I was a bit concerned we wouldn't be able to launch with the 4+ foot surf, but it was a pretty easy and a great day to be out there. Fairly overcast and foggy, but no wind and the swells were manageable.
Short boat ride and the fish were right where they were supposed to be. Most of the time the sounder was lit up more than this.
My goal for the trip was a ling cod. I started out with a large chartreuse and blue over white Flymen fish skull nayat fly about 4 or 5 inches long. Figured that would be a good size for both rockfish and lings. It was. I was hooked up almost right away with several rockfish. Soon my buddy was in on it too.
Didn't take too long before I got my first ever ling. Just shy of the 22 inch minimum.
I got hung up and broke off that fly - don't use 40# like the intrawebs suggest for lings. It is really hard to break it off. I ordered some jig heads for ling "flies." Had no idea what I needed so I went big. 1.5 ounces is certainly big enough!
The lings loved this thing! The rockfish wouldn't touch it tho - 7 inches seems to be too big for the rockfish? I got 4 or 5 more lings before things slowed down at slack tide. It is just a habit to pinch barbs before I put a hook in the vise. Lost my biggest ling - about 25" - right at the boat when the hook slid out. Here is another smaller one but a keeper.
At one point my buddy noticed some fish on the surface. We motored over and it didn't take long to get some on top. The coolest one was a fish that was just 6 inches below the fly staring at it - at first I thought it was a jellyfish. I gave it a little twitch (I was using a hover fly line so the popper would dive - seemed to be the ticket as my friend didn't get any takes and was using the same fly on a floating line) and it kind of half heartedly sucked in the fly. I could still see the fly sticking out of its mouth so I didn't set the hook. I gave it a little tug and when the fly popped out a bigger fish slammed it. Rob got it on video. You can't see it as well as we could with polarized glasses on.
I think I got 4 on top - one was a really cool breaching take.
Then we headed out to fish for salmon. We got more wild fish than hatchery but ended up with 3 in the cooler along with 8 rockfish and I think 3 lings.
We will certainly do this trip again!
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