Rock Fishing the California Coast for BIG Lingcod with SWIMBAITS! 

awesome dude. its a ton of fun!

They are awesome!

Thanks man! It was a fun day!

Where is it at?

Thanks Ben!

Yeah man give it a shot!

Thanks for the sub!

HAHA!

Much appreciated!

Welcome aboard!

thanks for the sub!

@@sonomacreekoutdoors7104 you’re welcome. Also feel free to check out my channel if you care to.

Thanks 💯

Thanks Nick! We try to find areas that seem like ambush points. The water is pretty clear up there. Try to find underwater points or rock piles. Anywhere that looks fishy. We haven't had an exact method. Trial and error. However the areas that seem to look good tend to produce fish for us.

We did both, but the swimbait bite is fun!

Dillion Beach isn't too bad

did you catch them??

The condos by the lodge? Is that the spot they caught the nice ling at

Thanks!

Low tide preferred, high tide works

@@sonomacreekoutdoors7104 why is low tide preferred?

Anywhere thats legal along the coast line past bodega bay!

Thanks Ben! We have more videos coming. We have been super busy lately. We are looking forward to getting some new vids out. We are based out of Napa/Sonoma.

65 - 80lb braid

up past bodega bay

Hey, in these videos we are up north past Bodega bay, closer to Gualala, its not a specific location. Anywhere you can access the shore and finds rocks you are in luck!

We were using a flambeau back packs.

nope!

Wondering if its too late in the year to have much luck but ill be happy just to catch my first greenling

Now is the best time to go from shore. Lingcod spawn during winter.

@@sonomacreekoutdoors7104 hell yeah, any spots suggestions pretty please? Lol I'm headed to barview jetty tonight car camping nearby then hitting it early

@@yugibeats5476 We are fishing up past bodega bay closer to Gualala.

Thanks, appreciate the feedback. We always link our gear in the description and if you skip to the middle of the video we break down the rigs we are using.

Thanks man! We are up north past bodega bay.

oh ya baby

Hey man, thanks for watching the vids! Head up past bodega and look for the rocks!

Just get out and fish a rocky area ! What kinda " fisherman" are you ?

hahaha

Some cliffs we are up 50ft. A few clips from this video we were only about 10 feet up. The small lingcod we catch at the end of the video is up really high. 50+ feet.

SonomaCreekOutdoors for sure man thanks for the info. Love the channel

Thanks Darius!@@dariusgreen8

ryker 36 ya they do a lot of perch fishing in bodega and Dillon beach plus a lot of shark and ray fishing

Yeah we do, we will have vids of bodega in the future!

Rays will be fun this year!

That’s how the game goes :( lol

North of Bodega, closer to Gualala

North of Bodega Bay

Yeah lets plan something sometime!

SonomaCreekOutdoors You let me know when and where I have to be I also have four kayaks between me and my roommates but I definitely think we should get in touch watching you guys fish reminds me of my roommates and myself😎!!!! My phone number is 669-888-4667 let’s hook up and do the damn thing LOL

SonomaCreekOutdoors I’ve only been able to get into lingcod a couple times in my kayak and that’s been in Monterey or Pebble Beach so if you got a spot we have an extra kayak possibly even two

Nice Dude

Don’t bogart it.

It’s not as far as it looks dive in bro!

I jumped.

We seen you there.

Sonoma County

Hookit up with the spot nice fishes

Correct!

Drive west till you hit saltwater, if you hit the rocks you’ve gone too far.

YES!

North of Bodega brother

I thought that was near by the city. I be catching them also rock cod, striper, lingcod, perch and other kinds in marin

@@Fishing415 Cool! Bodega is about 30 minutes outside of Petaluma. We are fishing about an hour north of that.

Oh wow that hella far. I know spots around there. I go around rodeo Beach and muir Beach area. Lots of fish there. I'm going on Wednesday. You wanna meet up

@@Fishing415 Good luck fishing this week! Thanks for the invite. We are heading up to Bullards Bar on WED to go bass fishing through Thanksgiving.

Not on here lol sorry

@@sonomacreekoutdoors7104 email ok? Bbturtle2@yahoo.com I just started rock fishing off shore again this year. I mostly do charters at half moon bay and emeryville. Ankeny, Seawolf and Tigerfish. Unfortunately, I have been really sick and can no longer get on the boat, so I tried along the shore from Bodega, Jenner, Mendocino and up to Fort Bragg. Jenner and Mendocino were the best but they have not been biting for the past 2 weeks using squid and white shrimp. I have been doing this about about 4 months now and hoping to explore more spots before it gets really cold. I fish mostly alone. So it would be great if u can share a couple for me add to my trips. If not, I totally understand. Thanks guys! Fish on! 🎣 🙂

This is not this spot, however here's a great fishing spot (best I have ever found from shore) but you have to have some nerve to get there as you have to make your way down a very steep cliff in the neighborhood of 650 feet. Warning to the wise, there is serious danger if you are not careful, but this spot will not disappoint you. You will know this is a great spot because you will hear the sea lions below barking to all their friends that, "This is the place." Travel down Highway one south of Big Sur to the Coast Big Sur then turn around and go to the second embankment north of there called Seal Beach Overlook. You can cross reference this location on Google maps. You will see a seriously steep cliff. (If it is the same as it was 36 years ago when I fished this spot you will also see what appears to be a path that goes about 100 feet and then ends. Now (VERY CAREFULLY) make your way down that sea cliff. If you go too far south you will come up against an extremely steep vertical cliff that you might meet your demise on so just head straight down slightly north. You will soon be going down a loose shale slope and that last about half the length of the hill. (Note that this is a serious challenge on the way back up the hill as this amounts to 3 steps up to make 1 step of progress after you slide down.) The perfect spot to fish is a rock that sits about 35 or 40 feet off the water where you can cast out from. The best time to go is in the early morning as the winds will be calm. So go early as the winds will put a damper on this unbelievably great spot. When my brother and I fished the spot with a few friends we cleaned house using squid for bait. The fishing is so good you can use a party boat rig with 3 hooks with the red and yellow yarn and reel in three fish at a time on a consistent basis. I have never seen this kind of fishing from the shore. Anywhere! We also never saw the remains of anyone else's gear down there. One of the guys left a pole down there on a regular basis and it never disappeared on him! So you know this spot is remote and hard to get to. The group of us usually limited within an hour. Back then it was 20 fish total per person. We made the mistake the first time around of lugging all that fish up the hill. The second time we brought fillet knives with us and left the remains for the seagulls. Now I believe the limit is 10. You should easily limit within an hour. As fast as you can put it out there we reeled it back in. There are tons of all varieties of cods, lings, caps, dolly varden's, sharks, flounders and about anything else you can imagine. My brother ended up putting climbing gear hooks into the rocks to make it safer to climb as it is a bit of a risk to get down there and back. It may or may not be there now. That gear is a good 30 years old minimum so you might want to replace it. A downside of that hill is that there is a lot of poison oak so you might want to use a poison oak wash before and after you go down to avoid the itch. The reason we found it was because there was a rock slide on highway 1 preventing us from going any further south where our initial choice was to fish, so we decided to take a chance and venture down the hill, and the rest is history. Needless to say that spot was a regular for the group of us. It's also full of great memories. Unrelated to 'The Hill', a couple of those friends passed away along with my best friend on this earth, my brother. Here's to you Jay. Love you bro. Be careful but enjoy that fishing spot that's the best I know on this planet. Crack open a beer afterwords during the fish fry and raise a toast to Jay!

@@MunMunVera Hey Vera, we are up past Bodega Bay, closer to Gualala. We look for spots that are accessible from shore and we can see rocky structure as the bottom.

@@joelshaw7878 Wow Jay, awesome! Thanks for sharing here. Hope this is helpful to our other subscribers!

We are here

Ever fished in Ireland?

Nope! Would be fun

Have you?

They would likely die. Slowly.

There all exstunt fish...they know how to take a fall lolo

You can see their poles, they show you their setup with the swim bait they are using. Maybe you should get a book on basic fishing techniques rather than criticizing people. lol Can not wait to try cliff fishing! This looks badass! Fish from boats, the shore and my kayak. Never have seen this.

Thats awesome, thanks Anne!

Hey Chasen, thanks for the feedback. We do what we can to explain, every angler is at a different level of skill. We tend to explain things in a way for those who know a decent amount around fishing to start with. We battle between showing fun content and getting down to the nitty gritty details. We have posted videos in the past going into lengthy explanations that got us very little views/comments. We will do what we can to explain more. If you skipped through the video, we did go over the baits, the tackle, ect. Thanks.

To summarize what he meant , Where is this place exactly located 😁