Here's a report from today from Richard Baratta: "Hey Willy, we Follow the advice of a certain fishing blog today and ended south by the big beach in the slop and chop. Had to move the hoops three times Found some big ones for two limits and 70 feet some nice rock cod to but no lingcod due to the strike because of the recent demise of their leader. Nice to see the beach so busy even with more beach.

Richard" Well, Richard, I was watching Gage and it turns out the trick is to wait a bit before reeling up your hooked rockfish. Gage was marveling at the fight that canary was putting up before it suddenly stopped wiggling and just went to serious dead weight. The ling never twitched, as it was busy trying to anaconda a seventh of its weight. In my humble opinion, there are likely bigger ones out there as the deep water has been off limits for a long time now (close to 20 years) and lings make lots of babies. It is probably lucky for the other rockfish that lings also eat their own, or there'd be no other rockfish. Gage advised a few other boats that had similar success today, limits of rockfish and Dungeness but no lingcod. 

    Richard also sent this video of a conical net in use. I think they work okay.