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Targeting Greenling

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#1 ·
I'll be heading to Orcas Island the first week of June. I've reviewed the regs and see that all rock fishing is closed so I'm guessing I'll try my luck with greenling/lings. I know how to go after the lings but not the greenling. Is it a similar approach but with smaller flies? I suppose my thinking was I'd just use a slower sinking head and smaller flies and see what happens but any advice is appreciated.
 
#4 ·
I agree. I had never caught one on fly despite many other bottomfish until I was fishing a very small (2" length) Deceiver purple over white on #6. Caught several on that. I think the males get territorial too and will hit the fly just to drive it away. I wouldn't use a slower sinking line though, the kelp greenling live closer to the bottom than rockfish but are more mobile than lingcod from what I remember in my scuba diving days.

 
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