In this video, we attempt to use live eel as bait for big lingcod, but things don't go as planned. Key equipment featured ...

Kevin Hofer is a Wilderness Systems pro staffer from Mendocino County, California. Lingcod are a voracious deep-water fish famous for eating their own species. Hofer earned his stripes pulling trophy ...

They're ugly, many sporting a piscatorial version of a beer belly and a gaping mouthful of 18 sharp teeth. They're misnamed. Lingcod aren't cod at all but the largest member of the greenling family.