They are so stupid that you can catch 4 of them on a 3 hook rig. The line must of gone slack when the sinker hit the bottom and tail wrapped the one on top while the other three went to town on the cut squid.
Found these on the east side of the 9 over what looked like squid on the bottom. I picked up 5 Speckled rockfish off a big rocky area on the south end of the bank and metered and marked a few new spots to the west that Jeff showed me.
Back at the beach I worked the halibut for a few hours for 3 shorts and a nicer fish dumped 10 feet under the boat.
Mike