New PB Surf Halibut 10/4

[Fish Jerk]

Made plans to hit the beach with my buddy Sean. Not sure what we were gonna run into as the forecast was for 50% chance of rain and it was drizzling when I picked him up. The day turned out great, stayed overcast till around 9-10, no rain, low surf and slack tide coming.Overall we had some great conditions today.

We picked up some of the usual suspects: mac, bone, pancakes and calicos, Sean picked up a Juvie WSB & I scored my  second Legal halibut and new PB, all 35.5 inches of Fatty Flatty.

I got a big hit while working a spot Sean had said to hit while he went back to rework another spot.  First cast, picked up a micro bone at 8-10 in that I decided to keep for bait.  2nd cast, 1/2 way in, BANG, zzzz zzzz zzzz. I could tell it was a big fish, but didn't know just how big. Originally, I was thinking either a nice legal hali or a big Calico by the way it was fighting. Heavy strong fish, head shakes and stayed deep. After a  couple good runs, as the fish got into the surf zone, it did a somersault and I caught a glimpse of the huge white belly and tail, I was like, "Holy S**t, big Hali!. I knew then that I wanted a landing assist with this one, so I bellowed for Sean who was 200yds down the beach and frantically waved him to get his rear over to me. Once Sean arrives and I get the beast into the shallows, it took 3-4 tries to get her far enough up the beach for Sean to get a good tail grab and finish pushing her up the sand.  We took some pics and back in the water she goes.  I big tail slap to say goodbye and off she goes strong as can be.

Epic day on the sand and thanks for reading.

[xjchad]

Are you kidding me!
Beautiful Hali Ron, congrats!!

[Latimeria]

Well, DAMN!  Beautiful fish Boss!  Juvie WSB also, as well as bonies...  great session.

Bravo on the CPR!  I'm not sure if I would have had the will power, but you deserve mad props.   

[j.rasta]

Nice phlat phatty brah! Congrats on the new PB!

X2 on the cpr kudos! Them Hali tacos are too good to let swim away!

[sasquatch]

That's a great catch.

[skrilla]

So that's where my skim board went.

[Castmaster]

Nice one! 

[vdisney]

Stellar my man, can't say enough about the release........................many karma points earned