Originally posted by Sky-Guy:
Think sunken Ferries and Diving websites. The information one can obtain from Diving forums, ...divers piping off about hordes of lings, catches a fishermans eye. I have fished this spot for years, but you couldnt have fished it before 1979.
Yeah, back when I was diving on a nightly/daily basis, I'd write up where I went, what I found, and did a review, if necessary. I soon found out that a bunch of low-life, fish selling, internet bottom dwellers (Sky Guy excluded from this over-generalization) were following my every post. Seems that every time I mentioned that I found a cool little Pacific Spiny Lumpsucker, or a Grunt Sculpin, those fish would be gone the next day (these fish don't move around much and like to live in nooks and crannies). Seems people were using my info to go out and capture these fish for the saltwater aquarium business.
Kinda pissed me off.
Fortunately, I caught on, and stopped giving out that kind of information - kinda like what happens on this site!
Less see if I can guess and ruin it for everyone.
Sunken ferry within any kind of range to Seattle and/or Edmonds?
Can you say Possession Point Ferry? That would be Parker's Guess.
Not too sure I know of any other large sunken shipwrecks, specifically ferries, in our area.
You can check out the boring review for yourself.
http://staff.washington.edu/parker/scuba/reviews/possptferry.html Fortunately, I was smart enough to remove the GPS coordinates off of this review. You'll have to go find it yourself, and no, I won't email them to you, even if you do email me privately and ask for them.
Other places I'd look for lings would be:
Shilshole Jetty
West Point Barges (another "secret")
The "Fingers"
Tacoma Narrows
Sunrise Beach
Edmonds Jetty
Edmons Oil Dock
Al-In-Des-Ka Sea shipwreck
Any place up in the San Juans or Canada
Boeing Creek Reef
Blakely Rock
Waterman's Wall
Blake Island
I'm sure I'm missing a few of the well known spots. Find large structure, and you'll find the lings.
I've done a dive site review on all of these places. Feel free to browse my site to any useful information.