Black Bass

[Steelheadhobo]

How do you catch black bass in Nootka Sound and Port Renfrew?

 

[vetteman]

How do you catch black bass in Nootka Sound and Port Renfrew?

How do you not catch them? I catch them mostly while jigging for cod. They tend to school up anywhere between the surface and the bottom. Pretty good fighters for their size.
Dave

 

[sammyslabber]

How do you catch black bass in Nootka Sound and Port Renfrew?

You bet dave, the ? is how don't you catch them. take a pass/troll by anywhere in Renfrew... early morning is best...once you locate them(schools) load up...no need to waste bait they'll bite anything...sammy

 

[Steelheadhobo]

Thanks, appreciate it.

 

[Bassblaster]

My wife,son,and I caught a bunch off the breakwater in Tofino one year, using Bass jigs. Are the Black Bass not a member of the rockfish family and therefore subject to the same rules and limits? Still trying to figure out half of the species around that aren't specifically listed in the regs and what family they belong to when it comes to limits etc.

 

[Dogbreath]

My wife,son,and I caught a bunch off the breakwater in Tofino one year, using Bass jigs. Are the Black Bass not a member of the rockfish family and therefore subject to the same rules and limits?

Yes Sebastes Melanops

Like all good Canadians they love shiny things.

Also-they sometime school with Silver and occasionally Blue Rockfish-something I learned on this board.

 

[Steelheadhobo]

What is the limits on the black bass per person?

 

[tubber]

I got some out past Burdwood in the kelp and rockpiles across Nootka Sound from the lighthouse. No need to use expensive jigs and lose them in the kelp.

 

[Dogbreath]

What is the limits on the black bass per person?

Depends on the area you're in-anywhere from none to 8/day.

 

[Steelheadhobo]

Depends on the area you're in-anywhere from none to 8/day.

What about in Nootka and Renfrew?

 

[Pippen]

What about in Nootka and Renfrew?

This site may be your friend.

http://www.pac.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/fm-gp/rec/index-eng.htm

 

[tubber]

What about in Nootka and Renfrew?

3,3 read this

http://www.pac.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/fm-gp/rec/SFG-GPS/SFGtidal-GPSmaree-2011-eng.pdf

 

[Steelheadhobo]

Would black bass be listed as a rock fish in the regs?

 

[Pippen]

Would black bass be listed as a rock fish in the regs?

You betcha. "Black bass", "Sea bass", or......."Black Rockfish"; all the same fish with different names on the west coast.

 

[Steelheadhobo]

Do you just use your downriggers for that? Cant you catch them right by the surface?

 

[eaglemaniac]

Pearch Zingers 3 1/2" are killers for most west coast bottomfish. eman

 

[Island Fish Lifter]

I usually tell people they give you the runs..

 

[Last Chance]

Black Rockfish will bite anything that moves. Stick a hook on a mooching weight and jig it in a pinch. Shine it up wiht your knife..

 

[Pippen]

Do you just use your downriggers for that? Cant you catch them right by the surface?

Dude.....you can catch them anywhere in the water column.

When running in from offshore off the WCVI......I swing by a kelp bed on the way in and will cast for them; everyone loves ceviche during happy hour and they offer themselves up absolutely wonderfully.

It sounds like the Renny guys get them thick down there.....we have got them further up Island on the outside....on the inside.....from a canoe in and around Kyuquot.....they are there.

Anywhere from the "surface" to "20 feet down to 150"......they are all over the place.

You are thinking WAY too hard about catching these things......I love the taste of them but way, way too much over analyzing.

 

[Heavyc]

These are tasty buggers, I like em fried with a coating of crushed goldfish crackers on them. I prefer them over ling anyday.