Gulp! for halibut, lings, rockfish

[Chetco]

Before I left to Alaska last spring, Buzz Ramsey gave me a bunch of Berkley Gulp! to try for saltwater fish. By the end of the season, I'd become a strong believer that Gulp! helps catch more halibut, rockfish and lings. Baits with Gulp! outfished plain baits, sometimes by wide margins.

As the package indicates, Gulp! disperses scent something like 400 times more than natural baits. It's the strongest, most effective attract I've found for saltwater fish, and when fish don't want to bite, it gets them to.


A nice halibut that bit some salmon combined with Gulp! Note the chunk of Gulp! cutbait hanging from this halibut's mouth.


My go-to bait for halibut. Salmon, herring and Berkley Gulp! We put down six lines, three with Gulp! and three without, and the first three first were caught by baits with Gulp! From that point on we always used Gulp! on all our halibut baits.


A rockfish caught with a shrimp fly and Gulp! cutbait. When the rockfish are by the surface, I'll fish a plain hook with a small chunk of Gulp! and catch fish after fish on the same bait. The rockfish just hammer it. It starts a feeding frenzy.


For lings and yellow eye, I'd use Gulp! squid or Power Bait grubs and tip them with the rib meat sections leftover from rockfish fillets. Lingcod and yelloweye candy!

Including these big yelloweyes!

Me with two of my clients' yelloweye caught out of Seward.


One of my deckhands holds a giant yelloweye caught on a Gulp! squid tipped with a rockfish ribmeat section.

[Chetco]

This photo shows a giant school of rockfish we were able to work toward the surface for a light's out bite by using Gulp! cutbait.

[Puffin]

Fyi we are not allowed to retain yelloweye as supposedly they are "endangered" (read as bad scientific data as they are extremely plentiful here). Showing off an 80 year old specimen might not sit well with some . Good eats though and good info on the gulp thanks.

[Chetco]

These were caught in Alaska. Limit is one per day as part of the rockfish limit.
Don't use jigs tipped with rockfish rib sections in areas of Oregon with abundant yelloweye. You won't be able to keep them off the hook.
Wayne Butler of Prowler Charters and I were talking about that last week.

I'm also probably the only captain in Seward with a rockfish release device to get rockfish back to the bottom when my clients are willing to release big yelloweye.

[Billfisher]

Thanks for the tip! Nice to know folks like Buzz Ramsey, I reckon.

[Chetco]

[No Reservations]

What flavor seemed to work the best ?

[Chetco]

It all works about the same. I think it's the same stuff, just different shapes and colors. It all smells the same anyway.
The 3-inch pogy is a good choice for rockfish, and works for silvers when mooching.

[No Fences]

THanks for the info CHetco. I'm really trying to get my rock fishing, ling career going. I love it.

[Coho Cowboy]

I looked at Gulp before heading to Nootka Sound last summer and decided not to take it along....my mistake. I will give it a try next time out. Thanks for the info.

[Buck Fever]

I've also enjoyed success using GULP! shrimp tipped on regular shrimp flies, here on the Oregon coast. Works pretty good for rockfish, caught fish when other baits/lures weren't working...

[Tip-Sea]

Are you guys using the new saltwater live gulp? And if so wich one? I haven't tried it yet but was looking into it on Berkleys web page.

[Chetco]

I use the new Gulp! Alive sandworms to catch greenling in the kep beds to use as lingcod bait. They also work for surfperch, and rockfish.

[FinFansea]

I have been considering using the Gulp Sardine, Chovy and Herring strips the last couple of seasons, but never got around to it. Glad to hear some good results.

[JustCallMeDave]

I've been meaning to try this, and am glad to know that it works. Now I'm pondering if smelt soaked in the stuff would work for springers...

[Chetco]

Gulp! now has a spray, but I haven't tried it yet. The eggs I cure up with catch enough fish that krill is all I add to them.

[fishboys]

Dave, smelt?

[Mypursuit]

Thanks for the info. I fish for Lings and sea bass frequently out of Garibaldi. I 'll give it a shot...I wonder if a tuna....???

[SalmonJeff]

are there certian scents you like or is it just Gulp??? I have seen the big jig baits and swim baits but never a chunk bait! very excited though.

[Chetco]

Not sure if I am supposed to post this link, but this is the stuff:
http://www.cabelas.com/cabelas/en/te...l&N=4887&Nty=1

[No Fences]

Thanks Chetco, I was just getting ready to ask you that.