Elijah.Loves.Fishin
6/27/2010 8:57:00 PMawesome report! i have never tried kastmasters or spoons for that matter in saltwater before. i typically bottom fished from the shore or docks with bait. i'll have to give that a try sometime if i ever find myself in an environment like you described :)
snake7676
6/27/2010 9:32:00 PMThats sounds like a fast intence morning at scout camp for you ! sounds like fun cool pics of fish wish I could help but I know nothing of them fish !
silverking0
6/27/2010 10:01:00 PMyour first pic is not a black rockfish looks like a china rockfish the head is the give away it has yellow on it and its rounded a black rockfishes head will be triangle shaped and no yellow at all. the second is a kelp greenling and are decent eating. good report you should try some jig and grub combos around the kelp beds they work great.
natetreat
6/27/2010 11:40:00 PMGreat fish! I think that is a Quillback Rockfish, I've never caught one before. But I've loaded up on black rockfish and that's definitely not one. Greenlings like that are great! At Westport, we use'm that size for bait. I've brought in 35 pounds Lingcods with'em that size. But they're great fighters! I've caught them in the sound with a Kastmaster under a float. Works great to avoid reeling in through those kelp forests. I'm a big fan of Kastmasters because you can catch pretty much anything on them, and they never break. Great Report, When I was a scout I used to sneak out of camp and fish too. But I got in trouble, on account of I was a Scout. Heheh.
urbanangler
6/27/2010 11:46:00 PMOutstanding work! Great job finding the fish, and on the primitive hunk-o-metal kastmaster, spin casting from shore, so simple. LOVE it. Makes me smile. :)
Bob R
6/28/2010 5:41:00 PMGreenling is a female kelp greenling, males are brownish with blue spots.Rockfish is def. NOT quillback, qillbacks have deep notches between spines on dorsal fin, chinas have def. yellow striping and jawline does not extend past eye, looks like a black rockfish(jawline extending past eye),head does not look much diff. than ones we have caught, descriptions per "A Field Guide to Pacific Coast Fishes of North America" , Peterson field Guide series, pics in that look like it's a black.There can be diff. in color, even from same area. Good report, I caught a 27 lb. ling cod from the rocks at the Westport South jetty years ago using a greenling like that for bait. Thanks for interesting post. Bob R
fishingboy
7/1/2010 10:05:00 PMthe rockfish is a copper rockfish and the greenling is a female! great job Chris!
