Northwest Fishing Reports

What is your favorite bait/lure for Lingcod

Any tips will be apprieciated

Live Sanddab's or Wilson Darts

Yea I second gon2fish. Go to a sandy botto area and just drop like chunks of herring for a bunch of sanddab. Throw em all in a bucket, and then go drop those guys down. Hold on, they (lings) will just rip up those sanddabs. Wilson darts work well, so do Crippled Herring or any sort of plastic squid or hootchie (big ones) tipped with some herring for scent will also produce fish.

Live herring on a mooching rig gets'em under the Narrows.

For me live kelp greenlings are the best real bait. For artificials I really like the larger swim baits.

how do you fish under the Narrows with such a strong current

Anchor up, jig for a bit, pull up anchor, float down a bit, reset anchor and jig some more...

Sometimes a good current is good. It'll move your bait past a lot of territory, and sometimes you'll have to back troll, which can be tough, but it'll keep the lines under the boat...

gon2fsh wrote:how do you fish under the Narrows with such a strong current

Kind of like a river. I run up against the current, get to the depth I want to fish, put the motor in neutral (I don't turn off the motor) and drift. Repeat as necessary. You want to be fishing about an hour or two on either side of the tide change. If there is a big tide swing, forget about it.

my bait is easiest of all....I use my spear gun

i like to use live shiners or gloddiggers if i can get any of those i use a medem size buzz bomb in crome color by the way do any of you know a good place to fish for the lings i when out to blakey rock and cought none also fished blake island the back side my dad caught a huge ling there like 5 years ago she was HUGE LIKE 88INCHES LONG

used squid that we've caught for lings

bassmaster123 wrote:i like to use live shiners or gloddiggers if i can get any of those i use a medem size buzz bomb in crome color by the way do any of you know a good place to fish for the lings i when out to blakey rock and cought none also fished blake island the back side my dad caught a huge ling there like 5 years ago she was HUGE LIKE 88INCHES LONG

88 inches? over 7 feet long...it's a good thing fishermen NEVER tell lies..

Kelp Greenling are by far the best for ling cod fishing. But there is anouther bait that works VERY well that no one has mentioned yet. And I would put money that not to many real ling cod fisherman even know what will catch the "Bucket mouths".

i would defenitly have to go with my dad reel_nut with this one kelp greenlings are the best bait for lingcod out of our area anyways meaning out of westport

My uncle caught a giant ling cod one year off of a small island in the San Juans using an artificial squid-like lure. The ling could have easily fit a basketball in its mouth. I always use jigs... Those lures work pretty good for me when i have gone. Another uncle of mine went scuba diving in the same spot about 10 years ago in the same spot and got attacked by another giant ling cod there. It bit his hand or something. Scary stuff.... I think there is a hole or something around there because we always get the biggest lings there.

I got back from a Halibut fishing trip in the CA waters a few weeks back. We fished for Ling Cod as well. What we used was stupid simple. Basically a small coper pipe filled with cement with 2 trebble hooks attached. We just let the line down to the bottom, jigged the pipe off of the bottom and the Cod hit the pipe. You set, and keep the slack off of the line. Not exactly bright fish. Apparently the bouncing coper pipe sets off their territorial instincts and they bite it.

Mikey wrote:I got back from a Halibut fishing trip in the CA waters a few weeks back. We fished for Ling Cod as well. What we used was stupid simple. Basically a small coper pipe filled with cement with 2 trebble hooks attached. We just let the line down to the bottom, jigged the pipe off of the bottom and the Cod hit the pipe. You set, and keep the slack off of the line. Not exactly bright fish. Apparently the bouncing coper pipe sets off their territorial instincts and they bite it.

Hey do you have any pics of that copper pipe lure or can you draw me a detailed diagram of the rig?

bigastrout wrote:

Mikey wrote:I got back from a Halibut fishing trip in the CA waters a few weeks back. We fished for Ling Cod as well. What we used was stupid simple. Basically a small coper pipe filled with cement with 2 trebble hooks attached. We just let the line down to the bottom, jigged the pipe off of the bottom and the Cod hit the pipe. You set, and keep the slack off of the line. Not exactly bright fish. Apparently the bouncing coper pipe sets off their territorial instincts and they bite it.

Hey do you have any pics of that copper pipe lure or can you draw me a detailed diagram of the rig?

Iv seen lures like this before. I always wondered if they worked or what they were for. The one that I saw was about 5" long. At the bottom the pipe was pinched together, so it was flat, a hole was drilled through the flat side and a treble hook was attached to it. At the top it was opened and you can see the cement and a hook ( not a fishing hook,a hook that is used to hang stuff in your house very small enclosed circle type) was embedded into the cement where you tie the line to. The one I saw plain copper, I thought the jig was a little basic but if you painted the jig, and added a feathered hook, it would look a lot better and probably more productive. These jigs would be VERY cheap to make, I'm guessing under $.50 a piece. But if you wre to find scrap copper piping on sale, you could probally make them for $.05 a piece

gpc wrote:

bigastrout wrote:

Mikey wrote:I got back from a Halibut fishing trip in the CA waters a few weeks back. We fished for Ling Cod as well. What we used was stupid simple. Basically a small coper pipe filled with cement with 2 trebble hooks attached. We just let the line down to the bottom, jigged the pipe off of the bottom and the Cod hit the pipe. You set, and keep the slack off of the line. Not exactly bright fish. Apparently the bouncing coper pipe sets off their territorial instincts and they bite it.

Hey do you have any pics of that copper pipe lure or can you draw me a detailed diagram of the rig?

Iv seen lures like this before. I always wondered if they worked or what they were for. The one that I saw was about 5" long. At the bottom the pipe was pinched together, so it was flat, a hole was drilled through the flat side and a treble hook was attached to it. At the top it was opened and you can see the cement and a hook ( not a fishing hook,a hook that is used to hang stuff in your house very small enclosed circle type) was embedded into the cement where you tie the line to. The one I saw plain copper, I thought the jig was a little basic but if you painted the jig, and added a feathered hook, it would look a lot better and probably more productive. These jigs would be VERY cheap to make, I'm guessing under $.50 a piece. But if you wre to find scrap copper piping on sale, you could probally make them for $.05 a piece

Yeah, what we used was very similar. Although, it wasn't pinched off at the bottom. It had two trebble hooks attached to it (wired in to it maybe). The top had a swivel hook on it and it was filled with cement so it was nice and heavy. It was just plain copper and yea, probably not very much to make at all. It was very productive. Apparently it makes the cod all angry and it just wants to bite it. Bam, you have fish sticks.

I would really like to see a picture of this lure if anyone has one?