Nico and I launched off New Brighton last summer to try for halibut or seabass. Since those species weren't playing we went out in the kelp and caught a bunch of grass rockfish aka grass bass. It was pretty fun, just drop your bait in the holes in the kelp and hang on :) We caught all our fish on 5" Big Hammers with 3/4oz leadheads. Color probably wasn't real important, anything that looks like an anchovy or any of the brown/olive colors are reliable rockfish catchers.