NP 5/16/20 bottom fishing
 

Headed out with a few buds. Intentions were to cruise south for the kelp beds. Took a while to locate bait, and the wind shifted so we nixed that idea and stuck around up north and fished for rockfish at our usual spots. Got 1 short halibut (somehow foul hooked) in the meanwhile. Found a couple new areas that we hadn't hit much in the past. buddy of mine got a 23" vermillion that had to be around 10#. We all got some rockfish (vermillion, flags, coppers, chuckleheads. Maybe even sunsets?) and some white fish by the time the day was out.

Water was 68 degrees per my FF.

Water was kind of murky and with polarized lenses the transitions were obvious. It wasn't red tide, just gross water I
guess.

ohh, we also saw a big pod of dolphins. Probably a hundred or so of them cruised right by our yaks within about 20 yards.

Tight lines guys.

https://i.imgur.com/8VeuY4Jh.jpg
idk how this guy got foul hook, maybe the mack thrashed and shoved the hook through the fishes forehead on doing so.

https://i.imgur.com/qX6rTfmh.jpg

On a side note, I think the guardian plate on my outback reduces the sensitivity of my transducer (hook 2 5 split shot), any one else have an issue with this? it gets wierd when i go into water that is over about 450' and then i have to restart it to get it to find the depth after i get back into water that is less deep. for example if I am moving over a canyon and it gets deep the ff will get wierd.

Looks like fun. Did you catch those rocks on live bait or squid?

All of the ground fish were caught on plastics tipped with a bit of squid or shrimp. Berkley gulp was slaying per usual.

Let's see that 10 lb rockfish your buddy caught!

https://i.imgur.com/ubtBx8ph.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/9LWjdV6h.jpg

Below is his video of it as well. His lip gripper had a built in scale that said it was only 6# but I don't think those are very accurate based on my own experience with them compared to digital scales, this thing was huge.
https://youtu.be/tKRqqBLKbAA

That thing was only 23"? When he held it up to me it looked even longer. Monsters are out there

Nice job man!! Got some good eatin right there! Thanks for sharing! Tight lines

Thanks Fabian, Hope you are doing well!

According to this length to weight formula/chart, 3.8kg or 8.3lbs. For comparison, this is an 8lb verm I caught, weighed on a digital scale.

Sweet I love charts like this. Yea that sounds like it could be about right. per the calculation given above it would have been about 8lb 5oz. thanks for sharing the resource, def gonna save this.

Any chance you have more of these tables for different fish?

Vermillion and the rest of the rockfish species on this paper

http://content.cdlib.org/view?docId=...ew=entire_text

Anthony taking a pic of Anthony lol!

He weighed it at just under 6#’s on his grip spring scale. It’s one of the nicer ones that I’ve seen in a long time! I don’t think Reds or Boccaccio are a dense of a fish as compared to sheephead or Ling. Though they big they’re not as heavy as they look.

You got yourself Some good eats right there! I made some deep fried for my wife and she’s like this is really good! How come you don’t catch more of these? ��

:D:D