Bonitos, Balloons and Big Rockfish (Redondo Beach King Harbor)

[AlwaysFishing]

Yeah at 500-600ft, they were Sunsets.

Originally Posted by JohnMckroidJr

Interesting Quang, I did a quick google and came up with this:

Hyde et al. (2008) reported a common depth range for vermilion rockfish from 30 to 100 m and a deeper range for sunset rockfish, primarily from 100 to 200 m. They noted few sunset in water shallower than 100 m and emphasized a high degree of bathymetric segregation between vermilion and sunset rockfishes at 100 m.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/scienc...65783622000522

Back in the days of 15 fish limits, a favorite spot for vermillions was Cherry Banks(sw of San nick) most the fishing was done in 5-600ft of water. Nobody was calling them Sunsets back then, but based on the depth, they must have all been of the Sunset subspecies.