That sounds wonderful. The last time I went out in the salt water, we were bottom fishing out of Kenai in Alaska. We targeted black rockfish, halibut, ling cod, and pacific cod. Rock fish were ridiculous when we were after them, and then we went to a new hole and upsized the tackle to go after lings and halibut. They were slow but a few monster lings. Towards the end of the day, we found a deep (300 feet?) hole FILLED with pacific cod and a few chicken-sized halibut. You would drop your jigging spoon down, no bait needed, jig it once off of the sea floor, and it was fish on. We anchored and got our fill of cod to fill the rest of the freezer.

Post your pics up as soon as you can Lemme pull up my big ling cod, I think I still have it uploaded to imageshack