Fishing Report: Garibaldi May 30th

We made a decision to fish some new areas off of Manzanita, about 9 miles north of Garibaldi, we normally would go 20 miles north to Cannon Beach, or 9 miles south to Three Arches. We were able to locate some nice structure in about 120’ of water, and managed to get our limit of lingcod, 2 each. We also caught some canary rockfish and black sea bass. We had a successful day trying a new area, and saved about 20 miles of travel in my 20’ Weldcraft. I was fishing with two friends, Jim and Todd. I find that keeping the jigs as straight up and down helps minimize getting snagged on the bottom, but if you do not get snagged occasionally, you probably are not fishing close enough to the bottom. Sometimes it is necessary to put the kicker/trolling motor in gear to control how fast you are drifting. We were using an assortment of jigs, from bullet heads with curly tail grubs, to plain diamond jigs, and one of my favorites, baseball bat jigs. The more weight you use, the more straight up and down you can keep the line, but it is also a lot more “work” on the arms to jig 24 ounces off the bottom all day versus 8 ounces.