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Bottomfishing for Lingcod, Rockfish and Cabezon 2022
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May 6, 2025
My crew and I were recently fishing out of Sekiu in Marine Area 4, bottomfishing for Lingcod, Rockfish and Cabezon. In this video I show a bunch of clips of the action, catching fish and having fun, but I also highlight two gear setups I started using in the past few trips that I'm quite impressed with. Want to get doubles and quickly get the boat limit of rockfish? Tired of losing jigs and lures on the rocks targeting rockfish? This video provides you an idea on a setup to use for exactly this goal. Link to the blog post on this setup here: https://pnwbestlife.com/preparing-for-ocean-bottomfishing-in-2022/
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oh dude no way
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check that out boys
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if they always act like that
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oh yeah that's a nice cap
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there we go here we go
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there we go what's up everybody another
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pnw best life video here uh today we're
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talking a little bit more about bottom
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fish lingcod and blackrock fish and
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other rockfish that you can keep out of
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cq we fished area 4 a few weeks ago and
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i've got some new ideas new tips and
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things that we did
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that were really successful and i'm
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definitely going to
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deploy this
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coming out of westport and later trip in
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may out of cq again nia bay and all that
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so all right let's get right to the
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action and talking about some of this
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gear
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they always act like that
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oh yeah that's a nice cap
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there we go
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leave it to me
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that's how they uh
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because they flare out yep yeah exactly
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heck yeah dude
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all right i got a new rockfish setup i
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want to talk you guys through here we go
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starts up here
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you can uh connect this with an fg knot
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i've just used a swivel here no big deal
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and we've got
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uh we've got
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a dropper loop off of a 40 pound main
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line
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and the top one goes to
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uh you can do the shrimp fly
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this is an ace high fly junior so i had
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a lot of those for salmon season last
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year with pinks
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um a three out hook
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and then we go down to the next about a
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foot of uh of this 40 pound line
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before we get to the next section here
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here we go
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another dropper loop
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right with the perfection knot and all
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this is on the on the blog preparing for
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uh preparing for bob fishing season
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article i'll drop a link in the comments
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got 20 pound test here this is the
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bottom loop goes to another three out
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hook and we got a um
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[Music]
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berkeley gulp
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penny grub these things here look
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fantastic
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and then finally i've got the last here
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another loop
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another loop for loop connection and
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a
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three
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ounce um cam ball sinker
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there we go there we go
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[Music]
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i love it
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there's probably a nice
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rock fishing
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yep
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all right one of the things i love
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how easy it is to switch these out right
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so here we go
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you just push that through
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push the cannonball through
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bam
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switch that out
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put a bigger weight on
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get right back to fishing now let's say
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this uh this weight hangs up we got a 20
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pound line here it'll break
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and a loop loop connection nut here i
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can switch this out throw a new dropper
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on be right back to fishing same goes
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with
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um
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you know if this were to break this gets
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hung up
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with this guitar now one of the great
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things about this setup is that
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you can get doubles uh you'll see me in
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the video a few different times just
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setting my rod in the rod holder and
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walking away it's it's a really a myth
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that you need to jig
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uh for these rockfish um i mean look at
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this thing
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is this thing fluttering through the
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water column this tail is dancing around
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like it it doesn't this thing you know
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is up above just you know floating
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around the current
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you don't need to jig to get these
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things to bite they they're gonna
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they're gonna bite uh with just a little
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bit of movement so you don't you don't
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need if you get the boat positioned
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right and you go through a school
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you don't need to be jerking the rod
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trying to get them to to try and twitch
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it getting them to to go and in fact
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i lose far less lead um when i'm doing
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this versus
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um you know tying them with his jig
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heads because it's it's not that the
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lead's getting hung up it's this hook on
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the lead that's getting hung up on the
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rocks
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you switch to a setup like this
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right
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where's my weight
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all right there we go
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set up like this this weight's what's
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hitting him and then you reel up a
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couple cranks you're not going to lose
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this weight very often you're not going
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to get caught hung up i've done a trip
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with this rig where i lost one
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i lost one weight the entire time one
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one rig the entire time
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and uh
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and the great thing is you can get a lot
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of doubles
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especially if uh you're not you know
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pulling
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you know on the first fish that bites
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you're not trying to reel it in as fast
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as possible
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uh let it let it hang there for
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a few seconds and you get another fish
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on especially if you're going right
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through the school you've got another
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black rock fish on
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and then the nice thing about that is
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you get that black rockfish limit out of
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the way now you can you got more time on
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the water to chase those big wings or
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maybe you're out and doing this in four
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during the summer and now now you've got
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your bottom fish done you can go after
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um you can go after salmon or maybe it's
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earlier in the year and you can go after
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halibut like you can you can hit
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multiple species if you can get that
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rockfish limit super fast so
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give it a try uh the rig is up there on
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the uh the blog article
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this this core 40 pound setup is on a
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salt strong video that i can link as
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well for you all which is also linked on
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the blog article um
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and this is this is such an easy simple
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setup takes a little bit of extra prep
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to do
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but it's it's worth it it's totally
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worth it like you're gonna catch
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more fish faster and and get on to the
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the species that you know maybe a little
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more prized like the ling cod or the
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salmon or the hal depending on what time
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of year it is
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oh mid water calm
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water
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[Music]
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20 feet of water
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oh yeah a whole bunch of them right
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there
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yeah 14 feet 18 feet
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holy cow
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oh that's a black nice
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there's five black rock fish and two
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calves
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and we got that one salmon so
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you're gonna want a beer bad you drink
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beer right
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yeah he does they figure you're american
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i mean all americans drink beer
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we've gone up forever
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we've gone up forever
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one more time
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what kind
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that one
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no
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[Music]
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oh
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oh
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[Music]
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see where that was on the
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screen hopefully it's the black
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yep
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yep this is a small black
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they're kind of mid-water column that
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looks like bottom
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oh bottom came off
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got it thank you
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it's coming
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loose right there oh that's fish
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how many cranks off bottom are you
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coming up that was probably just two
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uh it's a black rock fish
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so wait that is the school
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it's on the smaller side but
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we ask that you provide us with your
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some of your bountiful harvest in jesus
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name we pray amen amen
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just like that god
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[Laughter]
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a little another little black rock fish
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well i don't know what do you think
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[Music]
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oh that's a nicer one that's what we're
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looking for
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oh
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are you on the bottom
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ah shoot
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all right curse get over here
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oh shoot take this
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oh mother too
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ah darn it
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ah
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did i hit the prop
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all right
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yeah he's on
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come on yep
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oh dude no way
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check that out boys
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all right speaking of lincoln
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we got to talk about another setup here
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and that is
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um
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if you're going to jig
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for lincoln specifically and bigger
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lanes
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this
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lancer jig
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in this color um oh my gosh
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deadly uh we hooked so many link on out
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by tattoos uh fishing with this with
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this lancer jig and uh really i think we
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only lost one the whole time and how
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chewed up this thing is but it's so
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tough
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um oh this is fantastic
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um actually i don't think we lost one i
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don't even think we lost one because
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this is the one that we had on and uh
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yeah it's it's absolutely fantastic um
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ling's love these lancer jigs and they
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make they make this thing um all the way
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up to like 33 ounces so i've got some
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i've got some in the box i'm going to go
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um give it a try for halibut as well i'm
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excited for that
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uh i can't wait to use this out of
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westport try to get into some of the
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really big wings that are out there
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and uh yeah we'll see
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don't don't uh don't play with them if
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they're if they're on there like you set
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that hook and you
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yeah yeah yeah really
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yeah yeah get that sucker in
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oh i saw him pulling i was like huh yeah
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that's
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that's a nice link too
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get the [ __ ] out of here
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i'm pretty sure i'm keeping this link
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come on
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might need to get the net to get this
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thing on board
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to make sure
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let's see see hood
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oh what
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the lingerie
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oh it's a big cab
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it's another cab
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yeah when it when you feel a bite swing
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for it
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i thought you said with the wing you've
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got to wait no that was the that was
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fishing with bait
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yeah with you when you feel him on that
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like
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hit him okay that'd be good to know
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oh now you know
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oh my god
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it's not fighting
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uh it's a little baby ling a little turd
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at least target species
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but
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i don't be careful where you touch them
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dude
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i think he's bigger than the last one
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bigger than that one
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all right
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yep
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[Music]
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oh another rock fish
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at least it feels a little bigger this
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time nope little baby length
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a lot of rockfish
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what do you think connor
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yeah all right
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yeah i know very unfortunately
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sorry guys
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you know
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i'm glad you're apologizing because
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pretty much blaming you so
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you
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would have hooked more lanes instead of
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cabozone
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you're like the cab master what's up
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with that
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why do you like my red wines
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i got i got i'm filming this
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it's tired
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