2009 Ling Cod Season

[big fish lite line]

sorry about the "artwork" on my pics...

I pretty much always fish saltwater with my dad and we have spent alot of time finding good drifts and spots. I think he'd get a little POed if i posted all of our favorite spots on here.

nice fish matt glad to sea you caught a keeper.

on a side note one of my good friends caught a 38 and a 37 inch lingcod within 30minutes. lucky! he was fishing the south side of stawberry island in 250ft or so

[Matt]

sorry about the "artwork" on my pics...

nice fish matt glad to sea you caught a keeper.

Thanks, we actually got 3 this weekend. 28", 27", and that pig at 36". Great weekend with lots of meat for the freeze (and tonights dinner was superb, blackened).

Matt

[big fish lite line]

36incher!

thats a nice fish, sounds like you guys nailed them.

[swedefish4life1]

Oil can= Root beer go figure and the 36incher is a dandy fine job and effort!:cheers:

Fish on and now the week from H coming, heavy rains, winds and 20 degree weather drops by mid week!:batman:

Last picture was awesome attitude:-$
I was wondering are those Jenns ear=rings or just future Jiggers in black for the shallows:cyclopsan :colors:

[wintersteelhead]

Ya Swede, week from H is right. I'm posting this on the way out the door headed for the coast. I wait all year long for this week and it's gonna blow and pee the whole time we're there. Oh well, ciesta's in the afternoon.

To all headed to the coast for the opener.......Be safe. Aint no fish worth your tub or your life, and inshore rockfish will save a trip if you find the schools.

[fishingboy]

Anybody heading out this weekend for the lingers? on any piers? and i heard something about a 72 inch linger caught off edmonds north end of the pier!?

[Matt]

I'll be out at least one day this weekend punishing 'em.

Matt

[big fish lite line]

[quote]i heard something about a 72 inch linger[/quote

ya and last time I was out I caught a 250# hali out of my dingy#-o
seriously though 72 inches is 6ft I don't think thats possible around here.

I'm hopefully going out tommarow morning but I'd have to come back early because I'm going to prom saturday night:cheers:

[swedefish4life1]

Wear a Cap:colors: and a Gown:-$ !!!!Contamination are everywhere even Lings!!! LOL:-$

[Matt]

ya and last time I was out I caught a 250# hali out of my dingy#-o
seriously though 72 inches is 6ft I don't think thats possible around here.

Considering Great White sharks and Tuna have been seen/caught in and around PS historically due to global climate change and unpredictable currents etc I would say that anything is possible, even the 250# halibut in a dingy. Hell, I saw Babe Winkleman of In-Fisherman land a sturgeon over 6' from a float tube (in a river with current/riffle) and that was on TV!

Regarding the 72"er off the pier.... EXTREMELY unlikely, but entirely possible.

Wear a Cap:colors: and a Gown:-$ !!!!Contamination are everywhere even Lings!!! LOL:-$

Translation = Jimmy hat. hahaha! Hilarious as usual swede.

[fishingboy]

ya i know right i thing todd ( a guy in the edmonds pier i meant a few weeks ago is down right lying. i will believe it if i saw a pic! GOOD LUCK AND TIGHT LINES OUT THERE EVERYONE~~!!:cheers: :cyclopsan :cyclops: :farao:

[Smalma]

maybe it was a 72 inch ling angler that was caught at the Edmonds pier.

Most references that I can find list the top size of lings at 60 inches and 80 pounds. At one time the IGFA all tackle world record ling was listed as a 76.6# fish that was 54 inches long. That was an exceptionally fat fish which was caught in Alaska. There still a number of very large fish caught there every year with fish in the mid-50 inch range but still the longest of the longest tops out at about 60 inches.

BTW - all those huge fish are females. Here in Washington the largest males rarely reach more than the mid-30 inch range.

Tight lines
Curt

[Matt]

On my way out the door now! Its on!

[swedefish4life1]

Only thing caught off the Edmonds pier are ropes, beer bottles, others gear, and a bad date from the night before:cyclopsan

Interior sound not such a fish even close to those lengths and weights in a very many setting moons:-$

Starcraft with Blue Bird skies and zero wind you should of been on the water pressing at 5:am 6:30am start times from the pad#-o

[Matt]

Just finished up. Lots of shaker lings, lots of seabass, an irish lord, and my first ever Cabezon (got it over by peapod). Fished Pt Lawrence (and north of), Peapod, Lummi, and the southern tip of lummi rocks, spent a little while over at Viti Rocks too, nothing doing.

Pretty slow for keepers for us today, but we brought home a cab and 2 sea bass so at least we have fish tacos for dinner for the family.

Matt

[The Quadfather]

I went out for a few hour this morning we got a 27in and a 28in

I just got the photos developed today so some of them are from last weekend

I was just curious.... the 3rd or 4th pic. down the line.. is the one with the distended belly evidence of what it looks like when you bring up fish from deep. (I'm talking about the whole swim bladder distention thing) Just curious because I have not seen it before.

[big fish lite line]

I think your referring to the large cabezon which has the enormous belly. The rockfish are the only species which have swim bladders that expand. so no I don't have a pic that shows the effects.

[littlefishingbuddy]

As a kid we used to fish off the ferry dock in Edmonds and a few other places close by for Piling Perch and when we would pull them up from 20-50' of water they would be spilling the guts! So others out there do not like it either.

Scott

[big fish lite line]

interesting I did'nt know pile perch were the same way

[big fish lite line]

check out my new personal best linger
36in and he easily bottomed out my 15lb scale...
I caught him on half of a greenling which I had cut off sorta like a cut plug. I also had a white worm in front of the greenling tail.