Took my buddy mike out for rockies and halis. Hit the water a quarter to seven and it looked like an awesome day on the water. We tried jigging in the shallow reef south of the light house just before steamer lane. nothing, for a couple of minutes. Then we rounded the hook and paddled half way up to Natural Bridges, ~ 1.5 miles.

Pretty decent pick at em all day. First fish was a legal ling ~7 lbs. That put up an awesome fight. As I caught that one, saw a Private boat pull up a halibut drifting into an invagination in the kelp. He was literally fishing the fringes of the kelp forest. So we tried that as well, but no halibut for us all day, just a few raked baits.

Fished till 2pm. Around noon the bite picked back up at the hook and we scored a bunch in the shallow reef. Just find any opening in the kelp and you can pick up at least 1 or two rockfish. 4 in. scampi's tipped with squid or ocean gitzits were the ticket in shallow. Jig headed frozen anchovies when the bite got slow.

Total:

1 cabezon
2 ling
1 nice brown rockcod on a white and grey fishtrap (~4lb)
Limit of assorted rockies