Howdy, I'm a fellow kayak angler in the pugot sound. I would recommend avoiding catch and release fishing at depths that cause barotrauma for species that use an air bladder (rockfish and surf perch come to mind, greenling are find as they dont use air for buoyancy), totally fine if its for the fryer with the surf perch of course. Those eyes on the surf perch hauled up were really popped out since the bladder tried to expand 4X, not sure if they can survive that. Lot of those same fish can be found in structure in 30 ish feet where barotrauma would only blow that bladder 2x... something the fish are known to recover from. Enjoy the waters!
@@mikekim9869 a basic bathymetry map. I use Navionics, but even a free online map should help you locate wrecks and structure. Hoping to shoot a video this weekend on how I track down lingcod. I'm hoping to cover how I locate fishable structure.
Howdy, I'm a fellow kayak angler in the pugot sound. I would recommend avoiding catch and release fishing at depths that cause barotrauma for species that use an air bladder (rockfish and surf perch come to mind, greenling are find as they dont use air for buoyancy), totally fine if its for the fryer with the surf perch of course. Those eyes on the surf perch hauled up were really popped out since the bladder tried to expand 4X, not sure if they can survive that. Lot of those same fish can be found in structure in 30 ish feet where barotrauma would only blow that bladder 2x... something the fish are known to recover from. Enjoy the waters!
Good point and thanks for the tip. I didn't know that about surf perch. It seemed energetics so I thought it would be ok. Tight lines!
Where is this?
It’s called the wreck of the Omar. It’s in Ballard. Most structure should have perch in the winter though from what I understand.
What do you use to locate the wreck?
@@mikekim9869 a basic bathymetry map. I use Navionics, but even a free online map should help you locate wrecks and structure. Hoping to shoot a video this weekend on how I track down lingcod. I'm hoping to cover how I locate fishable structure.