ARW 3/22

Fished the rockwall today (suprise, suprise).  Frank was out there too, gettin limbered up for an afternoon go at Montys.
Launched right about at the bottom of the tide, and took the scenic route out to the end of the wall draggin' a rattle trap.  Frank stayed back to cover the flagpole area.

So far, bait has been hard to come by for me this year.  At least its still somewhat early.  Anyway, last night was the same deal and all my hard work was rewarded with ONE shiner.  Turns out that one was all it was gonna take.

Shortly after pinning the feisty bugger on and dropping him down in 30' of water, I got a really nice takedown that just kept going. 
Sweet, I thought, definitely not one of those pingpong paddles that littered the place last year.
Turned out to be a respectable 35" hali, my first for the year.

 
Called it shortly after that, as did Frank.  Packed everything up, and I was off to clean fish, and then crash on the couch for a few hours.

Water clarity is still not the greatest, but the tide was movin' good and ya can't knock the weather we got today...

Nice one Nate!

Nice score!  Great report, Bungle.   

WTG on the hali!  Cant wait for them to show up in Monterey.

Wow!!!
 
  That's a Hawg!!!! Congrats....  Truly respectable Fishy There!!!!!

I tried twice last week with artificials, Got a swipe on a rebel coming out of the cove Encinal ramp

 and nothing out @ Richmond, but a Dozen boats working all of Richmond Hard

thanks for the report I think I will get up early and go throw some swim baits from the rocks
don't have time to take the kayak out so we will see what happens
way to go nate

Damn...this season is on FIRE.  WTG Nate!!!

Nate,

Awesome catch, I suspect that your Bro JTF got you going to catch a bigger butt.  I still haven't been able to make any bait and dragging anchovy popsicles doesn't give me much confidence.     I'll see you on the water when I get some decent bait.   

Gary

Hey Nate,

When I get my yak from SC, we'll go fish the ARW on the regular.  Well done and take care.

-Eric L.

Nice to get an early halibut. I think AOTY is going to reach a new level this year.

CHEERS!

Hey Bungle... ...... CONGRATS! 

That's a big one compare to the first legal butt you scored at the Wall last year.

I knew someone would catch a nice one there soon with a help of nice weather and LIVE bait.... and you sure enough you did it.

I must confess, I tried there Friday for a few hours .  I knew it was going to be a challenge.  It was a bit windy, choppy, and I didn't have live bait.

Okay,  If Chuck is going  admit he was there Friday I guess we will have to admit we were there with him.......just a little re-con as I had a mid morning business appt. in San Ramon so we gave it a shot for a couple of hours.        Congratulations on the nice "butt". 

Nice work Bungle!  That's a nice fish... this is a fun time of year seeing these fisheries come alive again.

Great job. I still have never caught a butt.

Whoo-hoo! That's a very nice fish.