If you ever wondered what a Fogal looked like with a 42 pound salmon , here's your answer. Kevin sent me a few better pictures and this is my choice for showing it off. Now it looks like a 40+. 

    Now kids, don't try this at home. It can give you an overbite if you do it incorrectly. Luckily, John, here, knows what he's doing. I mean, if he's going fishing with Joe Winn he obviously knows where it's at. This is John's first limit of halibut all caught on the jig. Which jig? That I don't know, but I saw a small variety in Joe's boat. Classic bucktail jigs (Hair Raisers), swimbaits, Pitbull Killer Jigs, tubes, even P-Line Laser Minnows all work. Should you go all-in on jigs and forego bait? Probably not, but jigging kills time while you're waiting for a bait bite and sometimes, the only bites come on the jig. Plus, if you catch a halibut on a jig you will annoy all of your buddies with stories about the jig bite. Probably, John will be insufferable for the next week. Cool. He earned it. 

     Rumors of the mooching bite being effective are, apparently, true. "26lb and 19lb mooching the Trees Sat. Mooching was 8 to 1 on trolling" If you have a relatively small area of fish, drifting slowly through it would surely be better than trolling past. Offering these well-fed, sluggish hogs an after-dinner mint  looks like a winning proposition.

 

    Today was a short day for Joe Winn and his crew but a 17 pound halibut a nice future batch of fish tacos made the short day worthy.

   Ron Johnson has ahold of fish number three, a 22 pounder, against medical advice. Ron's back is what doctors describe as "messed up", but when he heard that the fish were biting he had to come out. I'm pretty sure I don't condone it, but I guarantee that I understand it.