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LeapinBass · 04-23-2002, 07:55 PM

My first attempt of the year for halibut from the surf payed off quite nicely. I started at low tide to be able to easily walk past the slough and hopefully dodge some of the loose floating garbage that is usually present at the higher tides. I was using a 3 inch 'Chovy colored Big Hammer on a 3/16 oz. Black Assalt Darter Head. <IMG SRC="http://www.swimbait.com/bighammer/images/h41.jpg"> Big Hammer - 'Chovy The first 20 minutes produced 8 nice sized perch. Six of them were caught back to back. I thought, "well if the halibut aren't awake I guess I'm going to have fun with the perch." Started walking further East to check out a few more spots and caught a couple more perch. After about an hour I went back to my first spot and immediately caught two more nice perch (the largest being about 1.5 pounds). Then after a few more casts I get another little perch tap a couple yards from my feet (I was in water about 2 feet deep). I set the hook and new right away it was not a perch. I felt the typical halibut head shakes and knew I was into something. I briefly caught a glimpse of the tail as it took off for the first run. At that point I knew it was very legal. It made a nice initial run and then I "babied" it back to the beach. A few more short runs, strong head shakes and before I knew it my hand was under it's gill and I was holding up my largest halibut to date. It was 34 inches long and weighed 16 lbs. 5 oz. The successful retrieves were a medium-slow retrieve with occasional strong twitches of the rod. Equipment: G. Loomis HS930GL3 Shimano Stradic 4000 6 lb. Maxima 3 inch Chovy colored Big Hammer 3/16 oz. Assalt Darter Lead Head Pro-Cure Calico Cocktail <IMG SRC="http://petenjen.com/photo/photos/2002/020405a1.jpg"> <IMG SRC="http://petenjen.com/photo/photos/2002/020405a2.jpg"> My son Pierce inspecting the halibut ********** You can't catch tomorrow what you kill today, please practice catch and release.

2nakiller · 04-29-2002, 02:02 AM

Hey Pete, Nice Butt... Hope you released it right onto the Grill. 2NA

davetclown · 04-29-2002, 09:07 AM

where do you put the hook in that Chovy? Ugly fish (lol) nice catch[cool] Good looken little one, can he say "Fish" yet? Never caught one of those thing before, do they put up a good fight? <A HREF="http://myweb.ecomplanet.com/MESS6438/" target="_new">http://myweb.ecomplanet.com/MESS6438/</A> Lookie See what the kids are up to. Dave T. Clown

davetclown · 04-29-2002, 09:15 AM

I forgot to ask if you are going to enter him in the fishing contest on the "Fishing Tournaments and Events" board "16 Species Photo Contest! " <A HREF="http://myweb.ecomplanet.com/MESS6438/" target="_new">http://myweb.ecomplanet.com/MESS6438/</A> Lookie See what the kids are up to. Dave T. Clown

LeapinBass · 04-29-2002, 04:18 PM

The hook is a lead head rigged like this: <IMG SRC="http://www.swimbait.com/images/rigged.jpg"> More info here: http://www.swimbait.com/techniques Actually, "fish" or "ish" is the only word my son knows. He originally learned it for the Peacock Bass in our aquarium but now he uses it to describe everything. California Halibut seem to fight differently all the time. The smaller ones fight like mad. This one made one nice run, several small ones, and provided some jolting head shakes. ********** You can't catch tomorrow what you kill today, please practice catch and release.

davetclown · 04-29-2002, 04:23 PM

[cool] now I get the pic' one good thing about starting them at that age, when they get older they can say that they were weened on a rod and reel. [ Smile

] <A HREF="http://myweb.ecomplanet.com/MESS6438/" target="_new">http://myweb.ecomplanet.com/MESS6438/</A> Lookie See what the kids are up to. Dave T. Clown

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