Great Day Fishing Today
 

Not from a Kayak, but the boat wasn't much bigger.

Got the invite Wednesday to hit up the bay with LordMatt hunting Halibut. I jumped at that offer and said let's go. Met up at 6 A.M. on the water by 7. Headed over picked up some Dines from the barge and went to some spots.
Matt picked up a Short Corvina(No Photo) then I got one of these.
http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c1...23/Spotty1.jpg
We hit up a spot that was producing some great strikes including this one,
http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c1...3/MattCorv.jpg
This Corvina went 6Pounds,13 ounces. This feel slammed the bait like a train and ran like crazy. Matt and I both lost a couple of good sized halibut, but me, well I caused one of Matt's to come unbuttoned at the boat that would have easily been 30" in length. Feeling bad I all I wanted was for him to hook up so I could redeem myself. That chance would come later.
Moved to the south part of the bay and got this.
http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c1...23/JZHali2.jpg
26 1/2" the last time I hooked a legal Halibut was when I was 13, I'm now 39. That's right 26 years since my last legal Halibut. Great day! I caught these a short time later.
http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c1...23/spotty2.jpg
http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c1...z123/Shark.jpg
To this point we were having fun, catching fish, we had 1 fish in the boat that we were targeting, so we headed to 1 last spot to finish the day. After a couple of ugly lizard fish, more bass, and missed fish this came on board
http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c1.../JZMonster.jpg
This fish went 33" and 12 pounds. Great fish right? we're not done
http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c1...ttmonster2.jpg
This fish went 32 1/2" back to back. I was able to redeem myself for the missed net fish early in the morning, but had I not Matt would have had 2 Halibut over 30" today. We called it quits after that, we figured we had done well enough and wanted to leave on a high.
We had a great day, caught the fish were were targeting, and after 26 years I finally got my legal Halibut. Thanks Matt for the invite, and I hope to hook up with you again.

Excellent work guys! I know the Big tide movement had a part in that.

I fished NPH for 3 hours on friday morning before a bid.I caught a few really big spotties one went 16".He had some scrap,I thought he was a decent Hali' for sure.I would like to be eating Halibut for father's day.

Congrats again:cheers1:

Nice haul Jimmy! Just about 1 of each flavor :)

Thanks guys, the Halis were on the chew yesterday, it could have been because there was a Grunion Run also, but no matter, I was glad they were biting my hook. Now I want to get one of those from my Kayak.

Good going on the Corvina!!!

Never got one of those yet... Looks like a great trip.

Jim

My buddy caught 2 in the area we were in, one was 16" and you see the other. That big one took off like a run away train. Great fight.