Lingcod in Santa Monica Bay (Video)

Excuse the late report but I thought this was a pretty cool catch for my son and thought that I'd share.

Went out of MDR in early July for some bottom fishing in about 160' of water. Weather was rain/misting all morning but calm waters otherwise.

The bite started slow until I hooked into a large Sandbass after not even realizing I was on it. Story of the day though was my son, who decided all on his own to use the Red Crab that the bass came up with spitting out for bait and he hooked into a Lingcod in SMB!!! Super proud dad here!!! All of this was captured on video, really cool sequence of events!! Ended the day with about a dozen Whitefish and few Rockfish.

https://youtu.be/g-Ym1XQiLGY

https://youtu.be/g-Ym1XQiLGY

That is awesome! Congratulations!