San Martin Island

I do believe that our captain had an itch to scratch with the halibut so we rolled up on the lee of San Martin at 9am and commenced drifting with dropper loops from the big boat. Being a lover of flat brown fishes I was stoked to be there because San Martin has a reputation for big halibut. The first one over the rail was a 17lber and that was followed shortly by a 32 pounder. There were some 6lb sand bass and some 5-7lb bonita caught as well.

We drifted here for a few hours, putting four more halibut on the boat. Steve (the guy who caught the 32lber) had the hot hand caught two more 25lb+ fish. I got one small one around 12lbs. It was a fun way to end the trip. We packed it in around noon and drove north, breaking down gear, cleaning up, and enjoying the stellar turkey dinner put together by the cooks for the last night.