12-26-2009, 04:54 PM | #1 |
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christmas halibut
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12-26-2009, 05:00 PM | #2 |
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Congratulations. Can you feel that yak fishing fever?. It gets worse and better every time out. Thanks for the holiday report.
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12-26-2009, 06:39 PM | #3 |
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Congrats on the Christmas hali. You'll learn to love that fishfinder, a vary usefull tool.
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12-26-2009, 06:43 PM | #4 |
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Good for you young mola...bring a net next time and hopefully you will find a keeper...they are in there...
If you can make a couple bait (smelt), send them down, do a slow drift, and I am sure you will get a keeper. Thanks for the report
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12-26-2009, 08:37 PM | #5 |
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ive got a net but its just a basic like rope one i heard if you net a halibut with one it messes up their tail and in a few days theyll get tail rot if you throw em back?
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12-26-2009, 08:58 PM | #6 |
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That is true Mola. You should either get a net that has the very small holes in it or get yourself a boga type of grip. For halibuts up to about 26 inches I have found my plastic fish gripper (looks like a plastic vise grip) up to the task. It can be a little tricky to get it into their mouth though (gotta be fast).
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12-26-2009, 11:12 PM | #7 |
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You can always grab them on the shoulder with your index and thumb fingers, right behind the gill plate there is a little dimple. that always works for me, I used to use a promar net (not the cool folding one) and found it to be a pain becuase the hooks would get snagged, so does the halibuts teeth, The net was nice on their tails though.
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12-27-2009, 09:05 AM | #8 |
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Just saw those Gulp Ghost shrimps. I have always been looking for something that mimics the rock shrimp that frequent the breakwalls.
That Gulp ghost shrimp in Red should crush it. Thanks for the read. Ed
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