>>1282638If I want halibut and bass, I also keep these around in case I run into patches of salad. The super fluke on weighted swimbait hook is particularly deadly when the condition is calm enough for it. I’ve seen in outfishing even LC sometimes when the water is too calm with no current. The downside is that it doesn’t cast far and has to be fished slowed so it doesn’t cover water that well. The swimbaits with weed guards are also good and I’ve gotten results with them as well. They deal better with rougher water and also cover space faster than super fluke. Super fluke on the sled head is something I just got and haven’t try yet. All of these go through salad even better than carolina rigs with sand crab.
I’ve seen halibuts biting on sand crab before, but mostly short ones. However, if perch and yellowfin croakers are around, they will swarm sand crabs before halibuts get to them.
I went out yesterday and today for the beach. Only manage 1 small halibut and break off a bat ray too big for my set up and didn’t want to bother wasting time trying to land and unhook it. Only lost a bucktail so it was no big deal. The condition is right with good structures but the fishes aren’t quite there yet. I’ll be back on thurs morning to the beach and hopeful 2 nights of grunion run will pull those halibut into shore. If I still can’t find any then I gonna go back to the jetty inlets where I’ve been doing very well with halibut. Only downside of the jetty is that shit is getting crowded as words get around about halibut doing well there. It’s a fairly small but hot spot so I hate when I can’t find a good position to fish after walking 20 min to get there
