hiked through crashing surf, heading for one of my favorite casting spots on top of a huge stone monolith the size of a small house. Perched 20 feet above the blue Pacific swells gurgling at its base, I had command of a large piece of open water. Summer on the Pacific Coast is a glorious time and place to fish the biggest fishing hole on the planet. I knotted on a No. 4 Scrounger lead jig head, carefully threading on a white, 8-inch curly-tail worm. This is a deadly combination that brings black rock bass and ling cod up from the depths to strike and hook up in rod-bending battles that will thrill any saltwater angler. The killer instinct of rockfish to devour any swimming bait that has a
