The season in my area is coming to a close so we headed out for one last trip going after Rockcod, lingcod and a fun time!
We launched out of Port San Luis via the hoist at the sport launch. The hoist makes it very easy to launch the Parker 2110!
Upon launching at 7am, the fog was very thick and our Garmin 740s GPS navigation was heavily relied on.
High tide was around 645am and low around 1pm.
We started out in around 110ft of water off Pecho Rock up the coast from Avila Beach. Something cleanly bit through my 40lb mono line tied to a 6oz leadhead and 9" Big Sledge Hammer swimbait. Shortly after my dad lost a fish as well. Weird stuff, what could it have been? Another good ol' fish story!
After a few fish we moved a few miles offshore to around the 200ft depth. We began catching quite a few lingcod. A variety of baits were used from swimbaits to iron jigs to shrimp flies with squid bits. A few lings were also caught on small blue bass hitchhikers.
The bite seemed to taper off around low tide.
The final count was probably around 15 lings for the two of us, of which we only harvested 2 at 28" and 27". We also kept 2 vermillions around 16" long.
The fog never really lifted but it made for a nice day on the water with very little wind and a small 4ft swell. The water temperature was around 55 degrees along the coast.
