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How To Tie and When To Use The Trap Rig

The trap rig is a presentation that I like to use for live or dead fin bait when I’m trying to target lingcod or halibut. It’s used to target bottom-dwelling fish and you fish it the same way you’d fish a dropper loop. The trap …

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Finding & Catching Shallow Water Rockfish

With the availability of advanced cartography on both our plotters and phone apps, it’s easier than ever to find deep water structure spots. While knowing exactly where to go will cut down on time spent driving around looking for places to fish, even in the …

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3 Top Rockfish Rigs – How To Video

Erik Landesfeind, BD Pro Team member, demonstrates how to rig up three of his favorite rockfish rigs using lures and bait. Erik first demonstrates how he likes to build a rig for lingcod when fishing a larger bait like big mackerel, sanddab, or other large …

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Bottom Feeders – Live Bait Rockfishing Tips

Video Breakdown On the hunt for rockfish, lingcod, and other bottom feeders with Seasons Sportfishing Live bait tips from Captain Jamie: Dropper Loop Rigging + Live Bait Selection + Hooking & Handling Mixed Bag rockfish action outside of Coronados Islands! Quick Trip Recap Oh how …

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Utilizing Technology To Maximize Rockfish Results

Erik Landesfeind explores the vast improvements in marine electronics and their charting features which can greatly improve your fishing game for any structure-oriented fish like rockfish.

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How To Use Relief Shading To Find Rockfish Spots

I recently took a trip to a stretch of coast I'd never fished and just hopscotched from one piece of structure to the next, catching limits of reds and wasting zero time looking around. It's so easy that it feels like cheating.

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SAC Offers Waypoints For New Rockfish Regulations

The Sportfishing Association of California has created a very helpful set of waypoints for many regions in the California rockfish fishery. The season is set to open on March 1, 2021, and new regulations will go into effect the same day.

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How To Cook Rockfish – Especially Small Ones!

Here in Southern California fall just started. And if you’re not busy catching big tunas or yellowtails, you’re busy catching rockfish. What happens when you come home with a bag full of small rockfish? Now what? The next question is: How to cook rockfish, especially if it’s …

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Rockfishing For Dummies

You may remember my friend John Curry from his contribution to the article Hoopnetting for Dummies. Yeah, he’s the guy who bought his first saltwater boat this summer and within a month was scoring limits of big lobsters every time he hoopnetted. When I wrote …

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5 Steps to Catching More Rockfish

Matt and I spent a couple days targeting rockfish over the weekend and while we didn’t set the world on fire, we did a lot of exploring and still managed to get a few nice fish. Friday morning we launched out of Long Beach and …