We had a great cod trip this year, but only 2 white sea bass were caught and 2 halibut. We did have 14 ling cod caught and every one caught or at least brought home limits of rock cod. The cod were big this year many going over 4 pounds. We caught very few small cod this year.

Our crew was great and the group of FIB’ers who came on the trip were super. All had patience when involved in knitting parties; the crew skillfully untangled the several messes. We had the usual open tackle box of sharing with each other whatever was needed . Walt G. won the jackpot with his Halibut.

The ride out and back was very smooth. Our evening departure was shrouded in fog, but smooth. We staggered out of bed about 4:30 and Val caught the first fish, a big white fish. Our luck on white sea bass was not good we tried for the ghost fish until 10am. While drifting for white sea bass and halibut we did pick-up some rock fish. Then we headed out for our meat run. We were successful on our first drop and every other drop produced a nice catch of good sized rock fish and some lingcod, too . Most rock fish were caught on squid but a few hardy souls were successfully using jigs off the bottom. Our bait was good; we had plenty of live squid for our white sea-bass fishing and used cut squid for our bottom fish.

Our boat total for the 19 fisherman:
2 Halibut,
14 Lingcod
22 White fish
190 Rock cod
2 white sea bass.

Big Fish Report
Walt Galen – Halibut 14.5
Steve Bermudes – Lingcod 10.4
Ron Withers – Cod 6.3
Shirley Bruhl – Cod 5.3
Val Handzus – Whitefish 5.2
Rodger McClanahan – Whiteseabass (no weight)