Well, not quite. I had a few open hours in the morning to fish before taking my girls to brunch for Mother's Day. I was determined to get a corvina on the topwater,
I get down to a damn bike race that closed the island, so I had to park quite a way from where I wanted to fish, but did so and took the hike.
I made about 300 casts and had 3 pops on my spook in that time! Nothing stuck, and I'm suspect that one of them might have been a needlefish. The other two seemed more like my target species.
I switched from the spook, to a jerk bait. I made about 50 casts on that and all it did was grab every loose piece of salad in the water.
I pretty much admitted defeat and was walking back to the truck, when I saw all of these ~12" halibut slamming and flopping on bait! It was pretty awesome to see! I clipped on an underspin since it was about the size of the bait in the water and on the first cast, it went ripping out! Now my heart was pumping a little thinking I might have gotten momma in the middle of that mix!
After about 10 minutes, I got my first view of it... sideways halibut... Ugh..
Hook was right where they usually are on a butterfly ray and about a few inches from the mouth and right near the nose...
10# test so I didn't want to pull on the line, but finally got get to shore. Whew! What a big one and especially for my bay bass rod!
That damn underspin was hooked good, but here what this monster went for....
Anyway, I decided that was the last cast, so watched her swim off and I was on the road to get home and cleaned up from all that toxic mud it threw all over me! LOL
Thanks for reading and until next tide!
