The Coastodian found a couple of halibut in the Inverness area today. One keeper left the boat without permission. This is one of the many dangers of kayak fishing, but it also adds to the joy of success, when it comes. Finally! The harder it is, the better the payoff when it is finally earned. Ask a fly fisherman. Yes, they're insufferable, but they're also not wrong. Okay, probably don't ask one, but keep that nugget of unease in your heart that they may actually be right. In my humble opinion, they're right, but I'm still fishing bait most of the time, because not catching sucks. Anyhoo.... Other fishermen also connected today. I can't say that everybody clobbered them, as I only heard a couple of reports, but the couple I heard were good. Drifted live bait, drifted dead bait, jigging, and trolling hootchies and P-Line Predators all accounted for tonight's dinners. I also heard of a kayaker doing well on halibut by Hog Island today. I have no details, but another fisherman saw somebody "doing well", so I'm assuming it was catching and not just not dying. For my two cents, the best time for success should be around the turn of the low as the high tide brings in frigid water. 47º is too cold. Even our few rockfish yesterday were sluggish. There was a boat with some nice eating rockfish in the ice chest pulling out this evening, so Gage and my problems of getting them to bite in cold water may be just our problem, not universal. We'll work on it. But also, remember, even in the super shallow where you don't need a descender device to return fish safely, legally, you need to have a descende r device rigged and ready to go if you're rockfishing. You don't legally have to use it (you should, when necessary), but you gotta have it. So sayeth the law. We have a few in the store, but Promar just came out with one for a very reasonable price. Just get one, hook it to a spare rod on the boat and you're legal. In the shallow water that we're allowed to fish it seems silly, but, hey, I missed the short shallow season last year, and if this is the silly crap I need to do to go fishing, then whatever. Descender, check. Stand on one foot, check. Chant an allegiance oath, check. Whatever. Let's go fishing for whatever they let us catch.