South bay Halibut

This is more information of things to come. I got this off of USAFishing.com.  Hopefully with a few good days of weather the striper and Halibut will begin to congragate off oyster.

Commercial trollers have been taking some fish in the south bay with one rumored to have caught 13 earlier in the week. A couple of party boats did try dragging popsicles today but were skunked. Shrimpers in the north water are seeing lots sometimes 100s of small juveniles in their tows so the fish are pushing in the waters are just too stirred up to effectively target them. Once the waters start to clear the bite will improve. Being a huge runoff year the best action will likely be found in the South bay through mid June. For you private boaters the best option is to troll the flats along structure and drop-offs and shelves where you are metering bait in 8 to 30 feet of water. One of my favorite setups is a small chrome Seps dodger with a Sheldon's Bullet Rotator. With the low visibility you want troll as slow as possible into the current with just enough speed to spin the bait.


Jason