[yosemite steve]

Fished Avila Monday night. 9pm-12pm. Macks, both spanish and pacs were available all night with a smattering of smelt joining in. Soaked a whole 10" mack on the bottom for no more than 10mins before the spool went whizzzzz. Cut my teeth on my first big ray. Est. weighed 85-100lbs. based on the guesses of the 4 other fellows on the pier. Others were pulling up small skates and rays all night.

Fished again same time Wed night with good results. Macks again were available all night. A guy across the pier from me started the night off with a nice 36" smoothhound. After soaking mack for a couple hours to no avail moved inshore to the first set of buoys and threw out just mack fillets. Had a couple taps on one line but didn't think anything stuck. As I reeled in my lines to go home, I was actually hooked into a 24" halibut! He just swallowed the bait and sat right there with it for must have been 30mins. Had to bring him all the way down to the beach to land him with no net.

A good week so far with both my first big ray and halibut!

[Ken Jones]

Where were they at when I was down there? Darn.

[illcatchanything2]

[polishfromthedeep]

wow, that's a awesome fishing trip, thanks for the report!

i might head down there tomorrow morning...

[Sin_Coast]

Hey hey! Big congrats Steve! A well-deserved halibut, for sure.

[jgy]

Congrats on the hali. It was worth the 15 hours you put in, eh?

[phiberoptiks]

Good job! A hali is always a nice way to end a day/night. I can't wait to get back to the central coast to wet my lines. 3 months is too long

[FishermanDan]

Congrats! 4 years fishing the central coast and I never got a Hali. Stock up on the Macks/Dines as they will come in hand during the winter months. Whats next on the list Big Leo, Cabezon, Lingcod?