LJ Saturday

[taggermike]

Had my first LJ paddle out of 2016 yesterday. Conditions really couldn't have been better. Tiny surf, light off shore breeze that went totally calm, water felt warm, n bait was super easy. I caught a Spanish, a greenie, and a sardine on the same sibiki drop. Gulls were picking at red crabs across a wide area. Only fish I saw were 2 black sea bass CnR-ed. Evidently some guys scored.

I fished a greenie on the bottom drifting and slow trolling. Dropped a bunch of different irons too. Made the most out of the 1 bite I got n put a halibut on board. May 10 lbs or so. And headed on in. Landing was as easy as it gets. Paddled strait in till the yak scraped bottom. Mike

[Geno Machino]

Nice score!

Still waiting for my first Hali.

Thanks for the report.

Geno

[Jude]

Nice


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[Harry Hill]

Did you catch the hali on bait or iron?

[kayakfisherman]

Nice job, beautiful, tasty fish!! You're battling a 1000.

[taggermike]

Hali bit a green Mac fished right on the bottom. Mostly I was dropping iron to have some thing to do cause I find bottom fishing kinda boring. Thought id be fishing frozen squid on the dropper loop so i had a 7/0 aki twist hook tied on. I left the squid in the car n didn't notice till I was out passed the reserve. I went ahead n fished the Mac on the big hook. Liked the result. Most halibut seam to come up just barely hook. This one had the hook in its mouth and the bend coming out about 2" back from its jaw. No way that hook was coming out. And the aki twists have long shanks so the line wasnt on its teeth. Might have to give the short shank circles I usually use a break until fly line time. Mike

[GeauxFish]

Nice catch & info

[Harry Hill]

Originally Posted by taggermike

Hali bit a green Mac fished right on the bottom. Mostly I was dropping iron to have some thing to do cause I find bottom fishing kinda boring. Thought id be fishing frozen squid on the dropper loop so i had a 7/0 aki twist hook tied on. I left the squid in the car n didn't notice till I was out passed the reserve. I went ahead n fished the Mac on the big hook. Liked the result. Most halibut seam to come up just barely hook. This one had the hook in its mouth and the bend coming out about 2" back from its jaw. No way that hook was coming out. And the aki twists have long shanks so the line wasnt on its teeth. Might have to give the short shank circles I usually use a break until fly line time. Mike

thanks for the info, I've been fishing circles hooks on the squid but I'm still batting 0 on hali, I may need to put some twist hooks in my box. Last time out two of my squid were bit in half, that is frustrating.

[2-Stix]

bitchen mike!

[maquinapescado]

How did your car smell with that squid in it? Because I have never left squid in my car all day to come back to a stink-fest. Just asking

[taggermike]

The thought of the squid smell was on my mind, I can tell ya. Got lucky, the squid was still frosty when I loaded it and double bagged. No smell at all. Mike

[fresh to salt]

Hahaha good catch big guy! Glad the car wasnt too smelly.

[iethinker]

Great report!