San Diego Bay 8/15 Got butt kicked by a big butt - Kayak Fishing Adventures on Big Water’s Edge

Dail14 · 08-16-2013, 06:54 PM

Thanks for all the advice guys. The whole idea of covering that distance was to find areas with good amounts of fish as this was my first halibut trip. All in all the trip was successful since I don't think I have read many reports of people getting more than one or two butts. I did manage to find at least one good spot for future return trips. And when I was hooking the sardines in the mouth like was said above I couldn't get the hookup. I ended up collar hooking and then put a trap hook in their back. It was really hard to not set the hook immediately when the clicker started to click.

08-16-2013, 06:54 PM	#11
Dail14 Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2012 Posts: 123	Thanks for all the advice guys. The whole idea of covering that distance was to find areas with good amounts of fish as this was my first halibut trip. All in all the trip was successful since I don't think I have read many reports of people getting more than one or two butts. I did manage to find at least one good spot for future return trips. And when I was hooking the sardines in the mouth like was said above I couldn't get the hookup. I ended up collar hooking and then put a trap hook in their back. It was really hard to not set the hook immediately when the clicker started to click.