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Boat Fishing => Saltwater Boat Fishing Reports => : Latimeria December 30, 2018, 05:19:18 PM

: Homing in on the Halibut (12/29)
: Latimeria December 30, 2018, 05:19:18 PM

Well. i kind of knew and now I do know for certain, where some halibut are.  Steve and I hit the bay just looking to find some new areas and catch some fish, so i took my mighty little clicker outto get a real tally and not a guesstimate.

It was a very late start as Squatch and I didn't get out until 10:00am.  First stop was an area that I have occasionally fished, but wanted to do some more searching with the current reports coming out.  Apparently I had the magic touch as I had 20 fish by the time Steve got two including 2 halibut.

First was on the swimmy.

(https://i.imgur.com/bfyl13P.jpg)

Second was on the Blade.

(https://i.imgur.com/WybIrHu.jpg)

Steve was getting tired of this spot and I recognized a familiar vessel on the water so crept on over to take a peek.  Right boat, different crew.  We decided to head over and try some other areas with the big incoming tide.  The next two spots produced nothing, so I deployed the trolling motor and we strted working some old hot areas which did not cool down a bit!  The numbers started rapidly rising and about 1/3 were small bass, 1/3 were mediums and 1/3 were decent sized.  No monsters, but a super fun time.

(https://i.imgur.com/NY3h972.jpg)

Steve was using these crazy looking tube jigs on a blade bait and it was working!  Well, actually everything was working.

(https://i.imgur.com/bAuaCag.jpg)

It wasn't the big dudes like we were catching out front, but it was so much nicer spending the morning in the back bay and constantly catching!

(https://i.imgur.com/U5pwSTV.jpg)

We got in about 2:30 and had a final tally of 105 fish.  Not too shabby for a half a days work.  Super fun light gear fishing.  Now to home in and poach those bigger butts...  :o ;D :o ;D

(https://i.imgur.com/6BgfK6S.jpg)

: Re: Homing in on the Halibut (12/29)
: sasquatch December 30, 2018, 08:32:02 PM

Super fun. Spot lock in the bay was great. We could fish long after the wind would have made the drift too fast.

: Re: Homing in on the Halibut (12/29)
: j.rasta December 31, 2018, 07:18:32 AM

Nice numbers, you're a terrible poacher x)


Lil bro got his new pb on Sat :)

33"
(http://i713.photobucket.com/albums/ww138/jrasta619/IMG_0612_zpssuhpdwiy.jpg) (http://s713.photobucket.com/user/jrasta619/media/IMG_0612_zpssuhpdwiy.jpg.html)

: Re: Homing in on the Halibut (12/29)
: vdisney January 01, 2019, 04:33:38 AM

I gotta get me one of those clickers..........................oh wait, I can usually count the fish I catch on one hand   :(