Just FYI

[PoDunk]

I know we’re all supposed to check this every year but if it saves one person a ticket it’s worth a post

1. No more bag limit of canary, black rock cod, cabezon, or greenlings

2. New bag limit of 5 vermillion

[J Peterson]

Eh, you might want to re-read the new regs. I don't see anything about the sub-bag limit for greenlings increasing. They read as follows...

"Elimination of the sub-bag limit for black rockfish, canary rockfish, and cabezon within the 10-fish Rockfish, Cabezon, Greenling (RCG) complex daily bag limit".

The word "within" identifies a difference between the fish species that are undergoing limit changes, and the overall type of limit that those fish fall within (rockfish, cabezon, and greenling).

I applaud you for trying to spare someone the financial hardship of receiving a ticket, but stuff like this is exactly why people shouldn't look to forums to try and figure out what is, and is not, legal...

[PoDunk]

You’re absolutely right i did misread that and i apologize to whoever may have read it when i glanced over it i must have seen greenling and just written it down sorry y’all

[J Peterson]

No worries. I’d hope that people would read the regs for themselves before next April, but realistically I know a lot of them won’t. I just wanted to point out the mistake before someone read your post and assumed the info about the greenlings was correct.

2021 is going to be an interesting season, especially for the party boats. They’ve spent the bulk of the careers striving to fill their customers sacks with reds, and now that sub-limit is going to throw a wrench into things. Seeing a canary or two floating away is one thing (I know a lot of boats tried to use descender devices), but sending big reds back to the bottom is going to be hard for a lot of customers to take, especially when a customer has five small reds baking in the sun in their sack and they have to release a 5 pound red.

[PoDunk]

Yea it’s the same on my boat it’ll be a weird adjustment because i typically fish over 200 and our limits come from reds and the occasional big blue bass but attempting to release a big red after being pulled from 250’ even with a device is pretty long odds that it survives ... i think it’s dumb but not my call all we can do is our best right?

[salty]

Good discussion points. Definitely will be interesting and its not ideal, we just gotta try our best!
Perhaps after getting a limit of reds at 250' , it would be best to move into 50-75ft to help increase the odds of survivability for the fish.