The wrong kind...

[j mo]

Got a bit of a late start and launched to sloppy surf around 8:00 am, met up with Gregg and Gabe and just missed Greggs sleigh ride by an XL T. Mid morning was pretty slow. We drifted for halibut for a while for no love and decided to move out into a little deeper water as the current picked up….

I Ran a mackerel deep on the Carolina rig and just as I hit 130’ I pick up what I’ve been looking for on the fish finder. Nice, my mack is on schedule to make a guest appearance to the Yellowtail food foraging party. Any time now I think. No love…

But just as I’m about to drop the iron, the TLD sings out then goes dead. So I pick up the pace a little and suddenly the rod gets bent. Pick it up to find dead weight, start reeling in still dead, then I get spooled then dead weight, then spooled, then dead weight….Get it to color, it’s a ray, no it’s a halibut. Nope it’s the wrong kind! Guessing close to 50 lbs. It was full of baitfish and what looked like a sandbass. The highlight of the day was almost being broadsided by a whale. I was a close as I'd ever want to be to a one. I found no ambergris!