ARW 3/21

The halibut are starting to show at the Rockwall. Total count for the day was 3 shakers (2 on trolled herring, and one on a trolled silver Rat-L-Trap), with one being just 2 inches short of legal (first halibut of the year demanded a sacrifice, it took my fish grippers as I tried to release it) . 2 scratched baits along the way. Couldn't have asked for better conditions, nice mid 60's with little to no wind. Bite was definitely best right before and during slack tide, got all my bites except the Rat-L-Trap one during that period. Ton of other boaters and kayakers out there, didn't seem like the bite was on fire as far as I could tell. Definitely seemed like shakers were the primary catch. Water temps were around 61 and there were sparse pockets of bait in the water. At least one kayaker managed a legal halibut, but other than that I didn't see any legal ones come in for the day. Still waiting on that first legal halibut, looking at next Sunday again at ARW if the weather holds

Thanks for the report! There was a post on Reddit as well about someone catching a keeper on herring.
Looks like April should be good

Very nice.

Thanks for the report Batrat!

Nice job. Seems like smaller fish are more frequent due to the closed salmon season but at least they reproduce a healthy stock

Nice report. Still very early for Alameda. Oyster goes off first and its still slow over there.