12/22/2018
I will be running many of these trips this coming year. All depth will stay open thru the month of April which is an added month of all depth for bottom fish. Get in touch with me if you are interested in a trip. Fish from my comfortable Glacier Bay 2690 Power Cat. All gear provided. Tight Lines and all the best in the coming year.
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2019 Recreational Bottomfish Season/Regulations
What's the same as in 2018?
The general marine fish daily bag limit will be 5 fish
no more than 1 of which may be cabezon when open (opens July 1)
The bag limits for lingcod (2), flatfish (25), and the longleader gear fishery (10)
Descending devices are mandatory on any vessel fishing for, or possessing, bottomfish including flatfish species, or Pacific halibut in the ocean.
The Stonewall Bank Yelloweye Rockfish Conservation Area, approximately 15 miles west of Newport, remains closed to fishing for bottomfish or Pacific halibut.
Yelloweye rockfish are prohibited at all times and in all waters.
What's new for 2019?
During the seasonal depth restriction, angling for bottomfish will be allowed out to the 40-fathom line (rather than the 30-fathom line) AND the restriction begins one month later, on May 1 (rather than April 1)
In the offshore longleader fishery, retention of two additional species will be allowed — blue rockfish and deacon rockfish.
Additional information can be found on the ODFW sport bottomfish webpage.
