Had one day off for the 3 day weekend last week and decided to stay local. The bait barge was supposed to be out of everything but chovies so I took my Sabiki. Only caught 1 greenback and a few chovies before I got to the barge to see if they maybe had some squirts. It just so happened that Mike had scraped the bottoms of all the "empty" tanks the night before,and had found about 50 well cured Sardines. He graciously split them with me, cause all he can get on Squid and Chovies there are Tomcod (it pays to tip well). Then he tells me to go out and catch a 44" Butt and bring it back to show him, cause he has not seen one in a while. My response was that I had never seen one that size come out of the harbor. I had heard of them, but never witnessed one myself. So I fished from 7am till 12:30 for not a single Halibut. Caught just about every other suspect out there including Leopard Shark, Brown Rockfish, Sand Bass, Sculpin and Lizzardfish, but not one of the flat kind. Just then I get the right kind of bite and bring up my first one which is legal, but less than 24" so I return it to get bigger. About 30 minutes later this happens.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1TOypkQO7M