Labor Day Weekend

[baluga]

Saturday 9/3 at the beach

34" California halibut on 3" BigHammer swimbait w/ 1/4oz leadhead.

Sunday 9/4 at the local park

LMB on topwater LC sammy 100

Please pardon the big smile..it's my PB for local parks and besides i still have that aftershock from yesterday's big halibut..

Monday 9/5 back to the beach

This one gave me and my rig a good workout..

4.5 feet Shovel nose guitar fish on Ima Sasuke jerkbait..

[00 mod]

Nice fishing over the weekend and a good mixed bag!!

Jeff

[Dwight Hottle]

The best of both worlds fresh & salt. WTG.

[hookingem]

Nice fish nice gear! WTG!

[Big-O]

Good Stuff Man... Keep it up!

Big O

www.ragetail.com

[zenyoungkoh]

NICE! hey man wad lures are good for the surf? I live in So cal too but i have never surf fish and would like to try since i lived only like 30 mins from the ocean.. I have mostly bass gears.

[baluga]

NICE! hey man wad lures are good for the surf? I live in So cal too but i have never surf fish and would like to try since i lived only like 30 mins from the ocean.. I have mostly bass gears.

I only use bass gears for the Surf, usually 6'6" to 7' rod setup for targetting halibut. I use the following lures for them:

1. Luckycraft Flash Minnow 110 in metallic sardine pattern - for moderate to a tad rough swell. Other jerkbait I use ( Ima Sasuke 120, Luckycraft FM 130 MR )

2. 3" Big Hammer swimbait in keylime, sexy smelt amd seawolf pattern rigged on 1/4 Oz leadhead - for calm water.

3. 3/4 Kastmaster in Chrome - For rough swell.

Good luck!

[zenyoungkoh]

I only use bass gears for the Surf, usually 6'6" to 7' rod setup for targetting halibut. I use the following lures for them:

1. Luckycraft Flash Minnow 110 in metallic sardine pattern - for moderate to a tad rough swell. Other jerkbait I use ( Ima Sasuke 120, Luckycraft FM 130 MR )

2. 3" Big Hammer swimbait in keylime, sexy smelt amd seawolf pattern rigged on 1/4 Oz leadhead - for calm water.

3. 3/4 Kastmaster in Chrome - For rough swell.

Good luck!

What do you catch with the flash minnow other than halibut? How many halibuts do u catch on avg a trip?

[Talmadge]

nice flatty those big hammers kill them! thats almost the only lure i use for salt its so versatile and catches such a variety of fish. nice work keep it up!

[SirSnookalot]

Really nice fish.............I use soft plastic flukes for my snook and tarpon, great beach bait.

[baluga]

What do you catch with the flash minnow other than halibut? How many halibuts do u catch on avg a trip?

Incidental catch on LC Flash Minnow are:

Corbina

Yellow fin croaker

Barb surf perch

Calico

Cabezon

White Sea Bass

and any thing that swims in the water.

90% of my catch is halibut although I get skunk most of the time and that what's keep me from targeting halibut. An average of one or two for an ok days and mostly shorts ones below 22". A good day would be one legal (22") and around 5 -6 short ones.

You need to learn how to read the water to be consistent but there would still be a lot of skunk days.

See you in the sand.

[baluga]

Really nice fish.............I use soft plastic flukes for my snook and tarpon, great beach bait.

Yes, I use the white 5" fluke for drop shooting on deeper waters like the harbors and bays pretty effective although I get a lot more short halibuts before I can get a legal size.

[hookingem]

Whats around your neck in the picture with the bass

[baluga]

Whats around your neck in the picture with the bass

It's a flexible flashlight that you can wear around your neck, got from costco. I usually fish the local parks early in the gray and needed some light for changing lures. I feel its better than those clips on the cap or those head gear flash lights.

[Packard]

Man that guitar fish is weird looking.

[Mrs. Matstone]

Fantastic, Congrats!