Must have salt water flies

These looks great. Nice and sparse I bet they'll hammer them.

I would love to, I use a....dark side rod for that. I would love to use a fly rod and bet a jig head would work great tied as a minnow or popsicle type fly. I would love to get all the guys out in the ocean with the pontoons and kayaks for some saltwater fishing. maybe we can hit it up when the weather warms up a bit, not big on the ocean in the winter without a dry suit

I have fished a few times off of some of the points around Victoria and Sooke and caught a few black rockfish. Chartreuse clouser.

I think you would be fine as long as they are not too deep. Anything you are going to catch outside of sooke is going to be relatively shallow. When i have pulled rockfish from the deep deep there eyes pop right out of their heads, in and around east sooke park and peddar bay i never think twice about throwing them back.

I don't often target them unless I have kids on board and it's been a slow day. Most of the time I catch them is by accident and generally in shallower water. I do however come across them when targeting ling, and that device would definitely come in handy there. Are they available in Canada?

As Ed mentioned, no dumbbell eyes. Just sticker eyes. I also coated the head with deer creek uv resin after sticking on the eyes for some durability.

I believe I used size 8 TMC 811 hooks.