So with the opener for steelhead being shut down I decided to go fish in anyways and after the ok from work I made plans to go out on my good friend's boat. Arriving at his house about 5 minutes later then expected we left his house at around 615 toward Everett boat launch. Got out on the water and headed out in search of shiners. Poagies and some may know them by. After locating the mother load and loading up with a few dozen we headed out to posession. After about 15 minutes of fishing possession we both decided it would be better to try an area where he has caught fish in the past. First drop we both land two nice size rockfish within second of bringing feet from the bottom. Release them, rebait, and try again. Bam another rockfish! This continued for a few hours as we located humps along the bottom and would drop their. Within seconds from cranking back up fish on. Had a good hit just for it to wrapped me up on something and never seeing my gear again. Retie and still landing rockfish when finally on of those drops crank up a few and bam fish on. Now this fish has more weight to it as it wants to dive deep. Bring him up and it's a lingcod!! Keeper 27 inches long.

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