Anyone ever catch rockfish in our local harbors?

[Ifishtoolittle]

I'm just curious because over in Japan a lot of guys will use UL equipment and use little jigs for rockfish in harbors. Over there every harbor is teeming with little rockfish. So, do we have any small rockfish a say reds or bocs that will dwell inside harbors? I know for sure that grass rockfish and treefish tend to be in shallow waters. If there are some smaller grade rockfish in harbors I may just try those techniques out.

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-IF2L

[smokehound]

Ive heard of boccacio being common around some harbors.. never seen any myself though..


Ive seen some, like brown rockfish, and grass rockfish.. a scorpionfish here and there..

Havent really seen any other rockfish in the harbors though.


I really doubt reds would be in the harbors..

[Ifishtoolittle]

Ive heard of boccacio being common around some harbors.. never seen any myself though..


Ive seen some, like brown rockfish, and grass rockfish.. a scorpionfish here and there..

Havent really seen any other rockfish in the harbors though.


I really doubt reds would be in the harbors..

Alright thanks for the info smokehound. I guess the only way to really know if there are decent numbers of rockfish in harbors is to go out and fish in them.

[agbasser]

i caught a sculpin in newport harbor once,while fishing spotties.does that count?

[Natural Lefty]

Ifishtoolittle, I have caught a few small Cal. Scorpionfish (Sculpin), Grass Rockfish and maybe Brown Rockfish in Oceanside Harbor. I have also heard of Rockfish in Mission Bay and San Diego Bay. Farther north, Grass Rockfish and maybe some other kinds are common in Santa Barbara harbor, but I don't know if you consider that a local harbor or not. It seems to me that the farther north, the more and larger Rockfish there are. Good luck catching them. I had Opaleyes going after my jig at Oceanside Harbor last time, so maybe Rockfish would too.

[Ifishtoolittle]

i caught a sculpin in newport harbor once,while fishing spotties.does that count?

Yeah I think that should count. Thanks.

[Ifishtoolittle]

Ifishtoolittle, I have caught a few small Cal. Scorpionfish (Sculpin), Grass Rockfish and maybe Brown Rockfish in Oceanside Harbor. I have also heard of Rockfish in Mission Bay and San Diego Bay. Farther north, Grass Rockfish and maybe some other kinds are common in Santa Barbara harbor, but I don't know if you consider that a local harbor or not. It seems to me that the farther north, the more and larger Rockfish there are. Good luck catching them. I had Opaleyes going after my jig at Oceanside Harbor last time, so maybe Rockfish would too.

Yeah I'm not sure if I would go that far north just to catch some rockfish in the harbor, but thanks though I'll use this info you gave me.

[n1ckxlam]

hmmm thats a tough thought. even the northern bays near SF dont have a lot of rockfish in their harbors, when rockfish is the name of the game. down here, they are even more scarce. the occasional sculpin is probably the only exception when it comes to rockfish, but i dont really see that being a huge finding in the harbors. what kind of rockfish are you referring to though? like inshore sculpin and gazer species or like vermillion, blues, blacks, and olives? a lot of those rockfish wont be found this far south, or even that shallow.
honestly in light of this, i would love to see a report on the rockfish you got from the harbor [no sarcasm], heh.
good luck to you ifishtoolittle,

Nick

[smokehound]

You will find some around the REALLY deep bays.

Lots of people catch nice rockfish around the santa monica bay. Vermillions too.

[Ifishtoolittle]

hmmm thats a tough thought. even the northern bays near SF dont have a lot of rockfish in their harbors, when rockfish is the name of the game. down here, they are even more scarce. the occasional sculpin is probably the only exception when it comes to rockfish, but i dont really see that being a huge finding in the harbors. what kind of rockfish are you referring to though? like inshore sculpin and gazer species or like vermillion, blues, blacks, and olives? a lot of those rockfish wont be found this far south, or even that shallow.
honestly in light of this, i would love to see a report on the rockfish you got from the harbor [no sarcasm], heh.
good luck to you ifishtoolittle,

Nick

I guess any inshore rockfish would be good. From what I have always observed young fish of any species tend to stay in the shallows until they are large enough to venture out into the deep. I was just hoping to target these young rockfish.