Kayak Fishing Adventures on Big Water’s Edge

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Launched @ gray light and headed to the kelp for bait. Made 3 macs and headed out to 100 ft.

Trolled through the middle of the fleet and stopped to soak the bait, 10 seconds later my reel sounded a few short bursts, and a long scream.

At first I thought it was a Calico that lost its way from the kelp because of how easy it came up, but that changed after a dozen cranks. Barn door on the hook, and I knew it was a Hali.

This fish went Nuts yak side, after I stuck him he shook so violently he broke my new promar gaff. :eek:
My friend Jason quickly handed me a second gaff and I stuck him again, and beat him with what was left of the first gaff.
-That really pissed him off, but I kept at it until he was seeing stars.:)

I game clipped him and tore out his gills, then bagged him up in an industrial drum liner bag float and hide him from the circling dogs.
It was a tight fit in the Adventure's hatch, but we stuffed him in there. Thats where a couple of friends come in handy.
It weighed in @ 28.4 lbs.

Thanks Elbie and Jason

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Nice but! Good job man!

Nice fish Billy, very cool! :cheers1:

Sweet! Nice halibut. :cheers1: That's the only decent fish I heard about today.

Good job on the hali

Very nice!! How long, 39" -43"?

Take it easy!

Aaron

Looks pretty rough out there. :leaving:

Nice one Billy! That thing come up from the depths or did you have a fair amount of weight on the line to get the mac down?

It was good to see someone out of the fleet be successful yesterday. I heard the water temp changed from the day before making the big difference in the bite. Anyway nice to see your halibut hanging from truck at launch.
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Very nice hali!
:cheers1:

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Originally Posted by forefrazier (Post 27422)

Nice one Billy! That thing come up from the depths or did you have a fair amount of weight on the line to get the mac down?

I used my standard trolling rig a 2 oz. sliding egg sinker on a Carolina rig. I had out about 75-85 ft of line. I had just stopped to soak the bait after a long troll.

He was swimming, not on the bottom.

I didn't have my tape measure so I'm not sure of the length.

Nice Halibut :luxhello::luxhello::luxhello:
Glad to see someone with a fish:notworthy::notworthy:

Very nice!:luxhello: