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Very nice pics. What kind of shark was that, Spark? Besides "big"
 

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fished Sunday and Monday. foggy in the mornings and afternoon.
decent rockfishing on Sunday we got limits with a couple of decent sized fish. no keeper lings, 3 caught all short.
Monday action started slow but ended decent as well did not get our limits but the fish quality was better. good sized blacks and canary. with one keeper ling.

still have not caught a single fish on the Mustad inkinvader, tried many patterns no luck yet.
but did catch some good sized fish and the ling on the attached.
That 300gm jig makes my arm hurt. I'm up to 200gm jigs for albacore that refuse to take surface offerings. A friend brought some of the inkinvaders to try that a sales guy wants feedback on. They look good for kings, but I'm lazy, just drift a herring down there and lings on the hook in no time.

Going Thursday for albacore. Hoping to find them closer in.
Running from Garibaldi, OR.
 

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Very nice fish. All we caught last weekend was some Goldschlager ;)
 

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I was really excited about the mustard ink invaders , but a ton of colors and sizes. 4 trips in and my son finally caught a dink on one .
 

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P-line makes these rock cod rigs,these have been killing the big rocks and occasionally a ling, most colors seem to work, the bigger sized the better. E7C63198-648F-4C06-A28C-5140B3D5B730.jpeg
 

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Bloodweiser, I don't keep rockfish up here on Vancouver Island (limit 1 a day) but have caught and released when fishing for Ling Cod. How do you prepare them for the table? Years ago when we did keep one or two we would dress and skin them and cook them whole as they appeared to difficult to fillet. Just interested in in your way of prepping.
 

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Bloodweiser, I don't keep rockfish up here on Vancouver Island (limit 1 a day) but have caught and released when fishing for Ling Cod. How do you prepare them for the table? Years ago when we did keep one or two we would dress and skin them and cook them whole as they appeared to difficult to fillet. Just interested in in your way of prepping.
I fillet majority of the fish ,many ways to cook, pan fry in olive oil or butter and light spice is good or ,Panko is nice too. Occasionally Ill bake or BBQ whole fish. I do think there is a slight taste difference between rockfish species. Blacks,Blues and Reds seem to have a slight better taste. might just be me though.
 
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I have really only fished for Kings and Snapper and Tuna and then caught whatever came up in between heh.. oh, and trout. Will be looking to expand my arsenal of schtuph to catch more variety in the off-season.