Rockfish info needed - Kayak Fishing Adventures on Big Water’s Edge

JeffB · 01-26-2014, 08:53 AM

That works... I like you use a little lighter gear. I usually use a 25lb set up and a 30lb set up, reel size is really not an issue. I love to use jigs, but a dbl dropper loop pinned with squid is almost unbeatable when it comes to rockfish.

01-26-2014, 09:12 AM

Yup, what Jeff said.

I go lighter, only because it sucks getting hung up in the reef on 65# braid. I usually use 30# floro, because YT have been known to cruise by once in a while and snatch up those squids and I would prefer to be prepared.

Floro is also highly abrasion resistant for when the rock fish take your rig into the reef over, and over, and over, and over.....and over and over and over again.

Finding them isn't hard when you have a meter. Bounce from lobster buoy to lobster buoy and look for speckles on the bottom, reefs, drop off, kelp, boulders....
Anything and everything will hold rockfish.

01-26-2014, 08:53 AM	#1
JeffB Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2011 Location: La Jolla Posts: 1,216	That works... I like you use a little lighter gear. I usually use a 25lb set up and a 30lb set up, reel size is really not an issue. I love to use jigs, but a dbl dropper loop pinned with squid is almost unbeatable when it comes to rockfish. __________________ If you're looking for me I'm

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01-26-2014, 09:12 AM	#2
Drake Guest Posts: n/a	Yup, what Jeff said. I go lighter, only because it sucks getting hung up in the reef on 65# braid. I usually use 30# floro, because YT have been known to cruise by once in a while and snatch up those squids and I would prefer to be prepared. Floro is also highly abrasion resistant for when the rock fish take your rig into the reef over, and over, and over, and over.....and over and over and over again. Finding them isn't hard when you have a meter. Bounce from lobster buoy to lobster buoy and look for speckles on the bottom, reefs, drop off, kelp, boulders.... Anything and everything will hold rockfish.