Right on dude! Good luck!

Dude nice score! Thanks for posting these reports btw…it’s definitely changed my thinking about halibut in the bay, in terms of winter opportunities! And my first big halibut was on a jack mack btw!

Does anybody truly believe the emergency action to reduce CA halibut take to 2 is permanent? Because it is NOT permanent. That sort of ends this entire discussion. If you’ve been fishing & paying attention for long enough, you will see bag limits/minimum sizes/methods of take/etc are constantly changing. I appreciate the adaptive management approach the dept has been using the last 15yrs. The opposite/alternative would be to keep the same regs each season, regardless of the fishery health. That sounds worse, right?

How about we petition for more CA halibut regions? Because the populations are totally different in various regions. We currently have 2 regions: south & north of Pt Conception. But the SF bay population has nothing to do with the halibut in SLO or Tomales or Humboldt. In fact, if they split them up into the same categories as the respective marine regions, it would make a lot of sense: Northern, Mendo, SF, Central, and Southern.

You will need to paddle very far to reach the 50-fathom line from most harbors/ramps. Rockfish/lingcod/cabezon is closed inside 50 fathoms.

It warms my heart to read this update, Ron!!

You can fish shallower than 50 fathoms, as long as you don’t have any RCG in posession, and you must release any RCG you catch.

You’re going to be in a good spot. My favorite section of the SLR is btwn the Garden of Eden and Paradise park. I normally access it from the hwy 9 side, but there are trails on the east side too. Personally, I would avoid the tribs like eagle ck & powdermill ck. The season opens Dec 1 nowadays. Wed, Sat, Sundays with barbless hooks (bait is allowed; locals often use shrimp) below Boulder Creek. You may find a few striped bass in the lagoon too.

Check out that stock pic. Ncka photo from anchor bay?

Ha! Good catch. Looks like AbMan & Dr Habanero maybe?