After I learned that the Hali was biting from 72nd Jetty in Long Beach from other board. My bro-in-law Leon & I went down to tried for the first time. After we maked bait at the river near by. When we were there I met the couple from the other board & They leaded us to the fishing spot ( Thanks to them, very nice couple ). When we got there the regular already caught a almost legal , lots of short. One guy caught a legal inside the channel . One of the regular gave us 4 tiny live bait when he left ( all of my bait are dead & i don't have that many either )and I got one short right away, the next bait in the water got pick up and I can fell that's a legal one , it was 23" so i kept it. We ran out of bait & bought some more from the shop on the other side of the channel, fished the out going tide in the channel side for 3 shorts between two of us & I got one big hit but came unbutton after 10 second fight.
My first time fishing for halibut but love it :-)
Khanh.