As hard as I try, I can't bring myself to halibut fish in La Jolla. I wanted to noodle around the pier and then head north to pound sand, but a 3 pack of 20#+ fish breezing south at grey light made up my mind to follow them.
Scored this guy on the deadstcked iron while fighting a bait fish which was lost to the kelp forest---it felt like a bigger fish too
Guessing around 13# or so.
After getting the jig fish to gaff, my other bait rig went off, but I had a spectra tangle wrapped up in the jig fish, and it quickly pulled tight and snapped the knot. Crazy almost triple hookup.
All this action came in about 70 feet of water "straight off the condo" Current was much lighter than last night too.