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Topic: Other Halibut landing tools  (Read 3135 times)

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Fungunnin

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Here is my go at making a flying gaff of sorts for dealing with halibut.
The hook is a 14/0 Mustad shark hook 20' of 1/4 twisted nylon rope so I could splice both ends a cheap crab pot buoy and a smaller float to keep the buoy from sliding off the end.
I think for most medium sized fish I should be able to use it like a gaff hook but with some line to play with and if it really is a big fish I will just dump the buoy.
There isn't a ton of floatation to the small buoy but I didn't like the idea of lugging around a big ball.

Hopefully I have to test it out soon!


Noah

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That looks pretty sweet! Where do you fish for them up there?


polepole

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BTDT.  The very first halibut hookup I did with Fishin-T years ago, Tom brought some of these large shark hooks.  They work well.

I've been known to use a large dry bag for a float when on remote trips.  Use the dry bag to pack your clothese then pull double duty as a gaff float.

-Allen


Fungunnin

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That looks pretty sweet! Where do you fish for them up there?

Halibut is open from the CR all the way through the straights. Our season is very short up here. Some areas only have 4 days for the entire season!


Pisco Sicko

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The most kayak-friendly areas to fish are along the Strait of Juan de Fuca. The outer coast can be brutal for launches.

That said, there is a little known opportunity in area MA2 for halibut, 7 days a week, inshore. It's meant to allow incidental catches during bottomfish trips from Westport. The sub-quota is usually pretty small, but since most people are using rockfish gear and fishing reefs, the catches are small in number. There is usually a similar opportunity in OR, north of Cape Falcon (though I haven't checked this year's regs). I've used it on a charter trip out of Garibaldi that fished the boilers off of Cannon Beach. I was using a big white curly tail jig with a teaser above. When we drifted away from the rocks, I would let the jig drag the sandy bottom. Had two hookups one day, landing one 40# "but.

Here's the language from the WA MA2 regs-

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Northern Nearshore HALIBUT Fishery: Open to HALIBUT
fishing beginning May 1, seven days per week until the
sub-quota is reached or Sept. 30 for those waters from
47°31.70' N. latitude south to 46°58.00'N. latitude and
east of a line approximating 30 fathoms as defined by the
following coordinates: 47°31.70'N, 124°37.03'W,
47°25.67'N, 124°34.79'W,
47°12.82'N, 124°29.12'W,
46°58.00'N, 124°24.24'W


 

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