Hey Baddawg, I looked for you, where did you fish? We fished my “hot” (not) spot between the Hoko and Sekiu rivers for halibut Saturday morning all day Sunday and yesterday morning but didn’t boat a butt. They were catching fish all around us but we must have had bad luck, bad bait, bad breath or bad karma. We did end up with some very nice lingcod, a couple of true cod and a few decent rockfish.

There were some very impressive butts weighed in at Olsons. There was also one unimpressive butthead I was camped next to but that’s another story. The biggest halibut I personally laid eyes on was 62lbs. I also saw several in the 40-50lb range and a bunch in the 15-20lb range.

I used one of the true cod for butt bait, but I think it was attacked by something other than a halibut. I had the pole laying over the gunnels; whatever it was hit so hard and so fast it nearly pulled the rod out of my hand. I must have had a nick in my line because it broke 50# Tuff line XP about halfway down before I could even pull the tip out of the water. I checked my drag and it was set pretty loose for 50# line so I don’t know what really happened… could have been operator error I suppose.

Saturday was rough, but the guys with the big boats (and big sacks) that fought their way to Seal/Sail rocks were rewarded with nice limits of rockfish and lings.