DFM: Yes! Legal Size Halibut!

Filed under: The Daily Flash Minnow — admin @ 6:41 pm June 14, 2012

I FINALLY caught my very first legal size Halibut (22in)! I caught it at Bolsa Chica! On this day, I was fishing when it was low tide so I wasn’t expecting to catch anything big. However, my fishing partners whom I came with all caught 1 each. In my case, on my first cast of the day, I hit the bottom to examine the area (Imagining all the small fish prey on the plankton of the ocean floor) and retrieved at a standard speed. The lure was almost near my foot so I started to retrieve faster to bring it up towards me. Then all of a sudden, I saw a Halibut jumping out trying to bite my lure! I immediately cast towards that area (slightly further) with the Staysee 90. This time I retrieved slowly and at the same spot where the Halibut jump out earlier, it started to chase after my lure and I got a bite!! From the look of the bent of our new ESG rod I was using, I guessed it would be at least 20in big. I carefully pulled it up to the shore and surely it was a pretty good size Halibut! With the help of my fishing partners, I was able to capture it this time. It was my very first Halibut this year and my very first legal size too!

Wow~ it took me 2 years to catch a legal size Halibut! My next goal is to catch a 25in and above Halibut!!

On this fishing trip, I used our Lucky Craft USA new product “BIGUP” Saltwater colors (Sardine colors) and I also caught some with our Saltwater lure king “Flash Minnow 110”.

Sandy
The Daily Flash Minnow

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