So Cal half day

[foulhook]

Not much posting on sports boats so I decided to leave a post. Went out on So Cal out of Oceanside Sea Center for a sculpin trip. The goal is to catch big sculpin without catching small ones,and rockfish because it's out of season. I used plastic scrampi lures with 12 ounce weight and caught fish on every drop, no rockfish caught and 5 pretty nice keeper sculpin.

[DarkShadow]

So, newb saltwater guy.

What happens to the sub legal rockfish/sculpin when they're caught at such huge depths?

[foulhook]

@DarkShadow
I have fished every landing from San Diego to San Francisco for rockfish this is how it works
1. Sculpin are fine they don't have the swim bladder that rockfish have, so they swim down to the bottom and live
2. Big rockfish like cowcod which are illegal, or if the boat has caught its limit of reds, the deckhands will use a descending device to drop it down
3. Small rockfish that nobody wants get thrown back, they either die, get eaten by birds and seals, or make their way back to the bottom