Took a last minute charter with captain Nick of All star charter to hunt for some lingcod. Never fished for them so I figured I'd leave it to the pros. Started the morning fishing for bait, small flounder and bullheads. Hit the honey hole by 7:00 and started getting action minutes in. Contrary to what I'm use to I got my first bite and with a barb less circle hook I was instructed not to set the hook so he could swallow the bait. It seemed like he played with it for almost five minutes then he bolted and nearly pulled the rod out of my hands. I let it rip set the hook and the fight was on. Landed my first Ling ever a nice 11lb keeper. One of the others on the boat ended up snagging some 50 braid so we hand lined it in and it got heavy, must have been about 300 yards of line then it started moving. Pulled in a spreader bar, 2lb sinker, and a monster ling. I caught one more keeper before we called it a day but I forgot to snap a pic. Primarily fished 50' to 80' of water bouncing off the bottom.

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