u/Key_Season2654

Hi! I believe this is a copper rockfish, but would like verification. Caught in Northern California. I have a really hard time telling copper from gopher rockfishies. I catch a lot of these and know you’re only allowed to keep one copper so I have been playing it safe and throwing back if there’s any question. It just seems to me that since you’re only allowed one they must be scarce and it’s 60% of what I catch. The horizontal line even though very faint is what makes me think copper. Thanks!

I am looking for something to clean a few thousand feet of 1/2 inch steel cable occasionally. I dont know if anything exists. I have searched around and can't find anything like it. Maybe it doesnt exist, but i figured if it did Reddit would know. Please excuse the 5 minute Paint drawing of what i am thinking.

Hey so I recently got a small boat that’s just big enough to take out on the ocean on calmer days in the bay. I had a blast going out and catching lingcod and rockfish my first time. I’m hooked! I however lost lots of expensive 6 oz jigs my first day. The rocks and reef they live in is so sharp it instantly destroys the fluorocarbon leader. I would cut and re-tie as soon as I felt a nick in it and that helped but I had a monster take it into a rock and I lost it. The second day I put a 18” wire leader on before the jig and this protected the line, but I caught less fish. Maybe it is just a coincidence. I don’t see anyone else running wire leaders for longs, so figured there’s a reason they’re not. What is the best way to go about not losing gear and still catching fish. I may have been too deep too I was bouncing the jig off the bottom and after reading you don’t need to do that every time and can be a foot or two above. Thanks for any advice! Also a picture of one fish there were lots of small but blue lingcod. Super cool! Only had one big enough to keep.