Lingcod Fishing Puget Sound Washington | San Juan Islands Opening Day 2024

[@briank.347]

I love watching the local brothers harvesting legally! 🤙🏽 Am heading to the coast in a couple of weeks for my bday to do some jetty fishing, can’t wait! 👍🏽

[@ThePiscatorian360]

Sounds like a fun trip in your future. Be safe on the jetty and happy birthday!

[@no_regerts5176]

Awesome video! I used to drift the jetties and “bass fish” for lings. Lots of fun.

[@ThePiscatorian360]

Thanks, yeah, it was an awesome day and fun on the lighter gear.

[@dansSawfish5604]

Lot of future Lingcod there nice to see all of them, and some nice yellowtail rockfish too. that Cabazon was good size! Got your keeper lingcods that's what counts.🎣

[@ThePiscatorian360]

Yeah, there should be a lot of slot limit fish there next season!

[@CaptainZac]

Hey Piscatorian nice mixed bag action here! Congrats on the ling limit! Tight lines my friend! Captain Zac

[@ThePiscatorian360]

Yeah Zac, we were stoked to get 3 slot.limit fish plus the others!

[@MinuteontheMountain]

Nice catches. Fresh cooked ling cod that I had caught earlier that day is one of the best meals I've ever eaten.

[@ThePiscatorian360]

Yeah, John, you can't beat fresh caught lingcod. Carli requested fish n chips!

[@PeelingLine]

Great work out there. It looked like you guys had a blast. Sounded a bit windy out there. I didn't see the olive rockfish though. 👍

[@ThePiscatorian360]

It was windy for sure, but it's definitely a blast catching all those fish!

[@PeelingLine]

@@ThePiscatorian360 Doubt it was an olive rockfish. Their range is southern oregon to baja cali.

[@ThePiscatorian360]

Probably a yellowtail they are kinda similar but different. Lol

[@brandonshipley3869]

I was behind you today on baldhills road

[@brandonshipley3869]

Me and my wife live in the same place

[@ThePiscatorian360]

@brandonshipley3869 it's a beautiful spot!

[@ChasingGrounders_]

Crazy how tight to shore you guys are.

[@ThePiscatorian360]

Drops off, it was like 70-90 ft can't go too much further out 120ft or less.

[@ChasingGrounders_]

@@ThePiscatorian360 where I’m at you gotta go pretty far out to get to 100’. You guys were 10-20’ off the bank. Pretty cool.

[@ThePiscatorian360]

@ChasingGrounders_ Yeah, the sound has a variety of structures depending on what marine area you're in. There is so much to still discover out there.

[@jakejohnson7867]

Hi! I’m staying on a property on Waldron Island soon and will be doing some rock fishing. I’m wanting to get some metal jigs and jig heads. Is 3-4 ounces usually the way to go for metal jigs and jig heads with soft plastics? Thanks for your input!

[@ThePiscatorian360]

Well, it all depends on the depth and currents on a particular day. Kelp greenling and cabezon are the only fish you can keep right now. Typically, you will find them in shallower water. Sometimes, I will use 1 oz wilson darts for the greenling in close. I think 3 to 5 oz is good for most applications. I will sometimes use heavier heads in May to try to get down faster in current for lings. All depends on what's going on. Have fun, tight lines!

[@NghiaPham-xi5so]

What kind of bait or lure did you use to catch the ling cod? Thanks

[@ThePiscatorian360]

No bait, we used plastics on 3-4oz jigheads. 6 inch scampi, fisherman's gold grub, swimshad. Colors used peral white, rootbeer, sparkle red.

[@NghiaPham-xi5so]

@@ThePiscatorian360 Nice, I had friends go out and caught live flounder as bait and got skunk when fishing for the Ling cods...

[@ThePiscatorian360]

@NghiaPham-xi5so I had a couple of buddies that used them in the south sound and did well. Hopefully, they land on them next time!

[@VetsDream]

Love the video brother. Let's get her out this summer and let me get some good aerial shots for you. We can work on an intro portion of videos for you.

[@ThePiscatorian360]

Sound good to me James! Good luck in neah bay bro. Can't wait to hear about it!

[@TheBoggs576]

Hey nice video great job... Check your impeller out on the main, the pee stream looks super weak to me.

[@ThePiscatorian360]

Thanks for looking out. That is how it does it at idle in that motor. Just had it replaced less than a year ago. My kicker pees like a cannon. Lol

[@TheBoggs576]

@@ThePiscatorian360 I have Suzuki's on my boat and they piss hard so when I saw yours I was like hmmmm... Glad to hear is normal.

[@ThePiscatorian360]

@TheBoggs576 Yeah, my honda 75 pee's harder too. Guys at kitsap marine said its good to go. In July it wasn't flowing at idle. They put a brand new one in

[@jacobaccurso]

Down here in Oregon, it’s 22 inches for lingcod.

[@ThePiscatorian360]

That slot limit here in the sound... 😆 we had so many 23-25's. Good for next year.

[@stephanielugo5028]

Do you have to use a weighted decender to put the rockfish back?

[@ThePiscatorian360]

You need to have one with you on the boat. You only need to use it when the fish has barotrauma. Their air bladder inflates from preassure and the fish can't swim down. You will see the fish kind of swells and the bladder looks like a Ballon coming out of their mouth. We were fishing shallow and didn't reel them in fast, so we didn't have any that suffered pressure issues. On this trip. Great question, by the way!

[@djmilhaus]

Quite a nice trip. Enjoyed the longer format. Launch pretty busy since it was the opener or not too bad on a weekday?

[@ThePiscatorian360]

Good to hear. I will mix it up and incorporate more longer videos in the future. No you know we put in at deception pass state park boat ramp and it wasn't terrible. Id say about 2/3 of the lot was full. I tried on a shrimp openera few years back and won't do that ever again. There was way to many folks.

[@djmilhaus]

@@ThePiscatorian360 Haha yeah, I tried to put in on the first week of dungie season last year there and we got the last parkable spot on the road since the lot was full and it was an absolute zoo. I bet it'll be busy tomorrow.

[@ThePiscatorian360]

@djmilhaus another option though a little more spendy is launch on the hoist at skyline marina. I think anacortes has one too but haven't used theirs.

[@djmilhaus]

@@ThePiscatorian360 Yeah, I've used Cap Sante Marina's hoist. Never tried Skyline's, didn't realize it was a public lift. I get to visit up there a few times a summer, such a treat!

[@privateidho]

YOU MAY BE ABLE TO KEEP THE YELLOWTAILS

[@ThePiscatorian360]

Not in area 7 to my knowledge unless that is new thing.