Limits with Lotsa Big Lings

11-8-2024
Tradewinds Crew

We had a very successful trip Thursday with limits of huge deep water Rock Fish and almost made it there with an excellent grade of Lingcod.

The beauty in the picture is a Yellow Eye Rockfish which was safely decended back home.  This fish is nearly a century old and we haven't been able to keep them for over 30 years.   They can live over 150 years and we thought we'd never be able to keep them again in our lifetimes.  The good word has it that there has been enough of a recovery that we may be able to in the near future.  The state of the art hydrostat fish decenders are to thank along with ODFW for their hard work.  The decender will release the fish at depths the fish was caught bringing it back to its home water pressure.  They are really cool and are easy to use.

The next 8 days look to get rough again but next Saturday is looking pretty nice and we have a Trip started.   We have some 20+ foot seas coming Tuesday and Wednesday so the Stormwatching will be terrific. 

FYI; Our harbor restoration got under way last week and is moving along really nicely.  We are getting new docks, pilings, and gangways with a phenomenal crew of harborwrights that are very fun to watch.  These folks really know what they're doing!