Every time I come to Fort Bragg, I always try wetting my line at the jetty in the Noyo harbor. It’s a small jetty but pretty close to good kelp forest. They give an assortment of fish bites usually. I found two hours this morning that I could visit there. As I parked my car I was approached by an angler asking what I was rigging. He was not local from Chico who works as commercial salmon fisher in Alaska. Obviously he likes fishing when he does that even in his breaks.
After I set up my high low rig on my light set up with size 6 hooks and 2 oz sinker, I walked up to the end of the jetty and found another very friendly angler there.
My first cast landed this rockfish. This should be a black rockfish.
Then the bites slow down. I explored different holes in the kelp and finally found productive spot for the perches.
After catching four and losing one to crevasse, I decided to leave. I like to make Japanese style sun dried perch “himono”. It makes their mushy meat firm! What I kept was smaller than usual size at the jetty but I saw my new friend landed a nice footer. But for making himono, the small ones work just fine!
The blue thing is the net I use to dry fish avoiding flies.
![28C70257-A30A-471E-BECD-9F4189C7E38B.jpeg](/msgboard/data/attachments/3/3360-aa5c443a261b38e8e5f97f4a6c98cae2.jpg)
After I set up my high low rig on my light set up with size 6 hooks and 2 oz sinker, I walked up to the end of the jetty and found another very friendly angler there.
![C2E52688-CB5D-4B6B-9CB4-4CA46991FC08.jpeg](/msgboard/data/attachments/3/3361-9679ce0830d8f9c2fa4af1c984b2ba57.jpg)
My first cast landed this rockfish. This should be a black rockfish.
![D6712CA7-0CF8-4510-B3D3-D5F73981D597.jpeg](/msgboard/data/attachments/3/3362-11ca35f8919f3267b206f12af6d96565.jpg)
Then the bites slow down. I explored different holes in the kelp and finally found productive spot for the perches.
![6796EA8A-9B9A-46C8-9555-2A4571E62D46.jpeg](/msgboard/data/attachments/3/3363-c33788fad3937687a1093248fb4a5b7b.jpg)
![FD99659F-67D4-44A0-B4C6-41F89DECBA63.jpeg](/msgboard/data/attachments/3/3364-fbf01c9606a165d322b5f796ca381168.jpg)
![0C5A3878-4B33-4840-A0CB-BA1D78481AE8.jpeg](/msgboard/data/attachments/3/3365-8d0510954609d5ec08e6124c6eebe2d3.jpg)
After catching four and losing one to crevasse, I decided to leave. I like to make Japanese style sun dried perch “himono”. It makes their mushy meat firm! What I kept was smaller than usual size at the jetty but I saw my new friend landed a nice footer. But for making himono, the small ones work just fine!
![C239BAE5-B437-4C56-A8C9-00DFE8D6E0C9.jpeg](/msgboard/data/attachments/3/3366-ad9341b3ef475d0ba9a00a80de6ae33c.jpg)
The blue thing is the net I use to dry fish avoiding flies.
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