LJ 8/19 - Hali

[mattamatta]

Thanks, guys. Between that and my Tuesday's full day islands trip, I've caught more fish already this week than pretty much the rest of my life, so that's pretty rad.

Originally Posted by dpricenator

Nice fish! I'm glad to see that we don't have to have a $3500 yak to catch fish. I ride a Ocean Kayak Mulibu XL II. I would like to see your set up, as I am all bungee cords and a milk crate for rod holders, and a 5 gallon bucket with a bubbler in it, for bait. No fish finder, or other goodies. Pretty much just set up to drift. Gong out of Dana Point this weekend. Hoping I do half as well as you did.

Yeah, that's my boat as well. I'll have to do a thread on it. One of the main downsides I've had with it (though I'd like something faster, too, if I'm going to be covering lots of distance) is that there aren't a lot of obvious places to mount things like all the fancy new fishing-designed kayaks have. I think I've come up with some pretty neat things, and had some of the stuff I wanted to have just happen to fit perfectly together in a pretty slick way. Better take some pics and put up a walkthrough. I know I did a lot of googling trying to find ways other people have rigged theirs when I was trying to figure out what to do with mine.

Originally Posted by jorluivil

That’s a nice fish but either you measured it wrong or your scale is off, there is no way a 30” halibut will weigh 25lbs.

Shoot, that's a typo! Cheated myself out of some length! Should have read ~39.5". Editing post...

[GTboosted]

Congrats on your first!


I lost my first one. Wasn't prepared for him to go crazy when gaffed. Broke the line and took off with a gaff attached to its belly. Learned alot with that one...so just because this one was tame don't let it fool you. lol

[LEEZO]

awesome catch! we all went through the hali wringer on the first ones, second ones, third ones. congrats!

[Cronus]

If your trash isnt getting taken out for a few days I found its best to just bag the guts and remains and throw them in the freezer until trash day. Prevents that smell of death from wafting into your face.

[dpricenator]

Originally Posted by Cronus

If your trash isnt getting taken out for a few days I found its best to just bag the guts and remains and throw them in the freezer until trash day. Prevents that smell of death from wafting into your face.

Yep, we freeze all our meat trash. Whether fish carcass or turkey carcass. The fish guts, heads, etc, that I get during the year, all get shoved into small ziplock bags, and sandwich sized tupperwares. Then frozen until lobster season. Peel off the ziplock and slide the block of frozen chum directly into the bait cage.

[Hunters Pa]

Originally Posted by dpricenator

Yep, we freeze all our meat trash. Whether fish carcass or turkey carcass. The fish guts, heads, etc, that I get during the year, all get shoved into small ziplock bags, and sandwich sized tupperwares. Then frozen until lobster season. Peel off the ziplock and slide the block of frozen chum directly into the bait cage.

Or pack it into the bait cage before you put it in the freezer

[GregAndrew]

Nice fish!

All of the above, and parcel up the roe sacks for bait chum. They work very well!