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Old 11-17-2011, 05:06 PM   #1
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Alone in paradise

Had one day off for the 3 day weekend last week and decided to stay local. The bait barge was supposed to be out of everything but chovies so I took my Sabiki. Only caught 1 greenback and a few chovies before I got to the barge to see if they maybe had some squirts. It just so happened that Mike had scraped the bottoms of all the "empty" tanks the night before,and had found about 50 well cured Sardines. He graciously split them with me, cause all he can get on Squid and Chovies there are Tomcod (it pays to tip well). Then he tells me to go out and catch a 44" Butt and bring it back to show him, cause he has not seen one in a while. My response was that I had never seen one that size come out of the harbor. I had heard of them, but never witnessed one myself. So I fished from 7am till 12:30 for not a single Halibut. Caught just about every other suspect out there including Leopard Shark, Brown Rockfish, Sand Bass, Sculpin and Lizzardfish, but not one of the flat kind. Just then I get the right kind of bite and bring up my first one which is legal, but less than 24" so I return it to get bigger. About 30 minutes later this happens.


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Old 11-17-2011, 05:15 PM   #2
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monster!

Nice monster Greg!!!! I always new they were there!
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Old 11-17-2011, 05:38 PM   #3
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Wow, what a monster! Congrats.
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Old 11-17-2011, 05:49 PM   #4
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Old 11-17-2011, 05:55 PM   #5
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Wow very nice. I can't believe how calm you were. I would have been hootin and hollerin. Nice fish Greg
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Old 11-17-2011, 06:23 PM   #6
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Enjoyed... thank you Mr Smooth
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Old 11-17-2011, 06:32 PM   #7
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Wow 34+ lb . Very nice
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Old 11-18-2011, 08:50 PM   #8
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Wow very nice. I can't believe how calm you were. I would have been hootin and hollerin. Nice fish Greg
X2!

I guess when you've slayed your fair share of barn doors, one becomes calm under pressure.

Congrats, that's a beaut!
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Old 11-19-2011, 07:13 AM   #9
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Great job and very smoothly executed. I liked your comentary about it being a shark and then a ray. I've been fooled like that so now I treat every slow heavy bottom hooked fish like a halibut until I have visual confirmation. Mike
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Old 11-17-2011, 08:08 PM   #10
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Beautiful fish Greg. Just two things: How the
hell to you find calm, tame, cooperative halibuts???

Also, I still a little sea sick from that boat wake...
Where's the dramamine?
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Old 11-17-2011, 09:06 PM   #11
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Beautiful fish Greg. Just two things: How the
hell to you find calm, tame, cooperative halibuts???

Also, I still a little sea sick from that boat wake...
Where's the dramamine?
I stuff my bait with Prozac to calm the fish down. Before the gaff, I am not horsing the fish up, so they are pretty spent by the time they hit the surface. Since I was taught how to gaff a Halibut in Dec. almost 2 years ago, I have not had an active one on my gaff.

There were no other kayakers and only a couple of boats OTW that day for some reason. By 1 pm the average wind there is in the teens at least. Just happened to be at the right place...
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Old 11-17-2011, 10:59 PM   #12
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Great stuff. Thanks for the report.
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Old 11-17-2011, 11:13 PM   #13
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Awesome catch! Wish I had the same skills
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Old 11-18-2011, 06:29 AM   #14
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WOW, she's a beaut!
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Old 11-18-2011, 08:40 AM   #15
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great video! what kind of rod???
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Old 11-18-2011, 08:48 AM   #16
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Thanks for sharing Greg!

I have to live vicariously through these videos until I land one of my own.
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Old 11-18-2011, 09:12 AM   #17
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great fish and great video!
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Old 11-18-2011, 09:26 AM   #18
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Simply amazing Greg, everyone else gives up til spring and you are still gaining WCW points with mutant flatties!
Did you learn the stoic waterman thing from stevooo or did he learn it from you? I dont think your heart rate raised more than 2 beats per minute the whole time!
Grats!!
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Old 11-18-2011, 10:39 AM   #19
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NICE ONE GREG!!!!!

You're getting a pretty sweeeeet collection of those videos!
I'm buying the DVD when it comes out!
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