Started around 7:00 am below the Bacara in near perfect conditions, clear, calm, with a clear/green water color. The waves/swell was also fairly small which made fishing the shallow water easy. It started off kind of slow except for one. We were in about 7-8 feet of water when Bryan gets slammed and the fish instantly starts peeling line. After about 5 minutes and before Bryan could get a look at the fish it pops off the hook. I've had some halibut do pretty good seabass impressions but Bryan was pretty sure this was a seabass. After fishing the area for a while I start to venture a little deeper and Bryan goes shallow. After seeing him catch a nice halibut and loose another I join him. For the next couple hours it was awesome. It seemed like we couldn't get 5 casts in without hooking up. We ended up with 7 halibut each with 4 legals each. Bryan stuck to the crankbait and I got mine on the 3 inch Mackerel Big Hammer and 5 inch Bay Smelt (2003 color - coming soon!) Big Hammer. The biggest fish went about 27 inches and was on the Bay Smelt. We both had prior commitments and unfortunately had to leave them biting at 10:30.