I went on 4/11, kinda last minute decision, Mike text me Thursday asking if I wanted to go and I sure did after not fishing for a few weeks. Unfortunately my battery was shot, so basically fishing blind except for Mikes Lowrance x-4. No love on the fly line, caught mainly Spanish, only one green. After a while Mike, asked Russ and I if we wanted to drop some squid. So we did, and for a few hours we had a fairly endless supply of rockfish (coppers, reds, salmon grouper, and Tons of whitefish). We threw a bunch back since they were pretty small rockfish. I changed my live bait rig to a slide sinker and dropped it down about 20 feet of the bottom, it went heavy and ended up being a nice lingcod tangled, not hooked, with my bait, got a few pics, and he spazzed out, freed himself and swam away. Bummer. Then rockfish bite died. Had another bait near the bottom, and then went bendo around 1pm, on the right kind. Locked down drag on the old jigmaster and just couldn't gain line. After 30 minutes, he popped off, second heart break of the day. Line intact, hooks not bent, knots just fine. He just popped off I guess. Need a live bait reel with more power, damn jigmaster, lol. Good times overall though! Here's a few pics. Good times Mike&Russ! [ATTACH]15199[/ATTACH
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