San Diego Bay

[JeffB]

I have been waiting for last night to come for a while. It was suppose to be the hot bite so I thought. Ended up being completely dead out there. Fished from about 9:30is pm to 9am this morning. I met up with a guy from OK. He is out here on vacation and has never kayak fished before. We were able to break him in pretty early with a spottie, then it was a waiting game from there. He caght a few sandbass over the next few hours, but that was it. I had a lot of bites, but they were just mouthing it last night. It was a real bizarre bite for me. I dunno if the eclipse had anything to with it or night. The conditions were picture perfect for the way I fish last night, just couldn't seem to spark their attention. Brad took off abut 3:45am and I went on and fished a little longer.

I went back to a spot that I knew would produce and man I was right. I caught about 15-20 spotties between 4:30-7:30am. I managed to entertain a few halibut. I caught one and had two come off, one of which was bigger than the one I kept. I had another fish about 5:30am slam my bait. It literally pulled one of my hands off of my rod. I reached up and got a nice grip on it and loaded up on the fish. I got about 5 good cranks on it and with a head shake it was gone. I think it was a big halibut, but who knows. There were a few halibut coming all the way up out of the water while they were feeding. It's pretty to cool to see flying halibut! Well here are a couple pix, not much, but we had fun.

The halibut 27" and EddieG weighed it right at 7lbs.