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Old 06-17-2008, 12:16 AM   #31
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Re: personal best lingcod

A little over 19 lbs. with absolutely nothing in its belly. Notice the bullet hole.

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Old 06-17-2008, 11:55 AM   #32
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dang nice shot!

where was the fish taken?
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Old 06-19-2008, 12:32 AM   #33
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I shot it near Brookings Oregon. It's a town almost on the Oregon/California border. I don't know why but its really hard to find +15 lb. lings around here.

My goal is to shoot an oregon vermillion. All the hook and line guys say that they never catch them in the shallow's around here, I know if I was down by fort bragg/salt point I would already have a grip of em. But I know a couple of spots that should be holding its just really hard to have the condition's come together around here.
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Old 06-30-2008, 02:03 PM   #34
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Ok if I add these two up it will make my best. All in all a nice day diving. A few things about ling cod that may help in the Pacific Northwest. I have had years of diving 15+ and a chance to find spots and get an idea of behavior. Non scientific but these are my inside info/tips for lings.

1. If you are diving a current area they almost always are on the Lee side of the blow.

2. Often find my best lings on rock piles that are near a steep slope.

3. They prefer the sunny side of rock during a slack tide.

4. On a sunny day with slack tide look at the top of the rock first. They are predators and like to play "king of the hill" looking down to see what morsels may come.

KEEP your eye open at all times and make sure you have no issues with fog on your mask. Lings sit very still and blend into leaf kelp I have almost swam past 25lb ling because my mask had a bit of fog in it.

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p.s. my brother in law got the "smaller" one
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Old 06-30-2008, 03:08 PM   #35
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My biggest ling was taken with a JBL, they maybe crap for open water but up along the Coast of Cali they usaully get the job done. The fish was 19lbs out of Navaro.
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Old 08-08-2008, 07:44 PM   #36
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Wahoo new best. 46# in 65 ft of water. I took it with a 16 inch sea bear pneumatic.... I am not kidding.

It was one of those perfect days of diving 3 inches of tide over 3 hours. I saw close to 20 lings between 15-35 all coming up from deep to feed. I was swimming back to boat as clip on the shaft of my Prime gun broke in kelp .With 60 feet of vis.I spotted this one heading along the bottom and had no time, but to grab my tiny back up gun and give chase.

I use the sea bear for small rock fish in the 5-7 range the shaft was the same size as the width of the fishes head.

Man what a day it. Absolutely awesome. I am still smiling
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Old 08-09-2008, 11:18 PM   #37
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ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. im drooling on my keyboard. tried to dive in mcneil, but stopped in campbell river on the way and shot a bunch of lings. by the time i was in mcneil i got an ear infection and had to go hook and line. =(
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Old 08-10-2008, 04:57 PM   #38
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Old 08-12-2008, 02:01 PM   #39
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My world record 12'8" 1,672lb. ling

(to bad I was dressed like dork for the pic, but this florida boy was freezing his ass off )
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Old 10-13-2008, 01:46 PM   #40
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Hey no matter what anyone says about JBLs, they are tough and durable. Although thats about all theyve got goin for them, theyll keep doing it for a long time.
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Old 10-22-2008, 10:56 PM   #41
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So far my best is 15lbs in Carmel. He was holed up in less than 10 feet of water.
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Old 01-20-2009, 12:13 AM   #42
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Biggest so far... but I've seen quite a bit bigger.
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Old 01-25-2009, 10:17 PM   #43
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my one and only ling so far was shot with a jbl ,first time i had it in the water and the first shot at a fish,19lbs. i want a bigger better gun for halibut but ill still use the JBL over in fort bragg area, and if i lose it wont hurt to much lol.
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Old 01-26-2009, 08:14 PM   #44
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my one and only ling so far was shot with a jbl ,first time i had it in the water and the first shot at a fish,19lbs. i want a bigger better gun for halibut but ill still use the JBL over in fort bragg area, and if i lose it wont hurt to much lol.
Which JBL do you have? I know the 38 NW is really popular in Brag. A couple years ago one of my co-workers bought one. A group of us went to Brag and were tank diving in Russian Gulch. His first shot with that gun he shot what he called a huge ling. As he was trying to get it into his game bag, it got away. He fussed for days over that fish. Ironically, the very next day as we were gearing up, two Asian freedivers were coming out. One of them had a nice ling, with a spear hole in the same exact place Jeff says he shot his. Shot it in pretty much the same area his was lost as well. We were sure glad that fish didn't go to waste, and he learned an important lesson on keeping ahold of game!

Same trip I got my first, (and so far only), ling. It measured 27", but was kinda skinny. I was heading in, also on scuba. I had my old 75cm Sporasub with only one 9/16" band pulled. I looked up and saw this ling heading towards me. As it went around me, I shot it just behind the head and pinned it to the sand.
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I use a JBL Exployer 22 with stock band. Yes one,, placement placement is all I can say. I only free dive so I have to be right on. My son likes to tickle them with a JBL mini carbine and when they swing around to bite him he grabs um with his left thumb and hand he does not let go till they are on the stringer. Then and only then does he stab um with his knife to settle um down. 25 inch for me and 27 inch for my son.
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