Best habitat to fish for sole and flounder? - Kayak Fishing Adventures on Big Water’s Edge

Saba Slayer · 01-02-2021, 04:39 PM

Delicious...but like eating Trout...it takes a little work and technique to get to the meat without lots of bones...
I always seem to get into them when I drift off the rockfish hard bottom spots...sooo...look for rockfish marks then drift off em...LOL

They don’t seem depth specific...if there’s lots of em and they’re suspended off the bottom I usually see them on the meter as sort of a blue haze or condensed speckles on the ‘softer/mud’ colored bottom...(not red)
They’ve been a pretty pesky bycatch lately...good news is that they swim right back down with no biotramma
��Be sure to bring a descending device to return any rockfish you might catch��

GregB · 01-02-2021, 07:55 PM

Whoa that is what I call a mess of fish. I like cooking them, lifting one side of meat off with a fork, then flipping and doing same. Minimal bone issues. And if the panko crust is hard enough, wow. Thanks for the tips, Jim! (And amen to the descender ... can't understand why it isn't embraced more in SoCal. Throwing away future lunkers never made sense to me. And with the new verm limits coming up, even more important.) Happy New Year!

summers in kuwait · 01-04-2021, 09:46 AM

Be sure to bring a descending device to return any rockfish you might catch

Very nice Jim and great point about the descending device. A must have!

01-02-2021, 04:39 PM	#1
Saba Slayer Senior Member Join Date: May 2007 Location: Palos Verdes Posts: 1,872	Bycatch Delicious...but like eating Trout...it takes a little work and technique to get to the meat without lots of bones... I always seem to get into them when I drift off the rockfish hard bottom spots...sooo...look for rockfish marks then drift off em...LOL They don’t seem depth specific...if there’s lots of em and they’re suspended off the bottom I usually see them on the meter as sort of a blue haze or condensed speckles on the ‘softer/mud’ colored bottom...(not red) They’ve been a pretty pesky bycatch lately...good news is that they swim right back down with no biotramma ��Be sure to bring a descending device to return any rockfish you might catch�� Attached Images __________________ Jim / Saba Slayer Last edited by Saba Slayer; 01-02-2021 at 04:45 PM.

01-02-2021, 07:55 PM	#2
GregB Member Join Date: Feb 2012 Location: Santa Monica Bay Posts: 40	Whoa that is what I call a mess of fish. I like cooking them, lifting one side of meat off with a fork, then flipping and doing same. Minimal bone issues. And if the panko crust is hard enough, wow. Thanks for the tips, Jim! (And amen to the descender ... can't understand why it isn't embraced more in SoCal. Throwing away future lunkers never made sense to me. And with the new verm limits coming up, even more important.) Happy New Year!

01-04-2021, 09:46 AM	#3
summers in kuwait Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2014 Location: East County San Diego Posts: 657	Be sure to bring a descending device to return any rockfish you might catch Very nice Jim and great point about the descending device. A must have!