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Hit the water at about 5am Sunday with 2 goals in mind: Get my first lingcod of the 2024 season and get limits of vermilion while the 2023 regs still apply for the Southern Management Area. Ended the day with 1 Lingcod(26.5"), 4 vermilion, 2 bocaccio and 1 Sculpin. Mission accomplished! Picked up a new Daiwa Saltiga Levelwind as a dedicated rockfishing reel and it worked great. After I got limits of Vermilion, I moved to several different locations to try to find different species, but I kept pulling them up. Used the descender to release at depth and finally called it a day after getting a couple bocaccio.

Super nice day on the water. Water temp 58. Minimal swell. Bait was easy to find. 6-8" greenbacks. A little cold offshore wind in the morning, but it cleaned up after sunrise and was dead still for several hours straight making for smooth, glassy seas. Plus I got the fish I was after. Can't complain about that!