SD Bay 3-4-11, triple play

[MrPatrick]

I hadn't been on the water in a long time and I was Jonesing.
I had new reels that I bought from craigslist. They were Great White GWC30's. They are Quantum PTS 30's with the cabelas name on them. Great deal at 50$ each, new in the box for two.
I also had a new spinning combo with a cardinal reel and a tactix rod. I spooled it with fireline crystal.
I went out to the 10th Ave. Terminal and fishing was slow, just a couple of spots. I switched to a nuclear chicken gulp shrimp and the next fish wasn't a spot. It came up with a slow tail beat...... Hali. Got it to the boat and thought it was short and set I free. The wind picked up and I moved back to the West side of the Bay over by the restaurants and fished in 35' of water. I caught another Hali that was smaller than the first. But I decided to measure it. It went 20", so I may have let a keeper go, oh well. I caught a third Hali that went about 17". All on the crazy colored shrimp. The wind kept building and I went to Mariot ferry dock and caught 3 Calico bass.
Not great day but the butts made it special. I had caught more Hali's Ina day buthey were all really small ones under the bridge. The butts are here folks, go get them.