Today Brian Long and I made an afternoon run to goleta beach for some float tube halibut fishing. The tides were conducive for a good bite, incoming all afternoon. We started around 3:30 in front of the stairs but the bite was slow for the first hour or so. After working out a ways we came back in towards the beach where the water seemed to be a little warmer. Suddenly I see this nice flattie get airborne chasing bait out of the water. Then we both see another one slash on the surface. Whoa, boiling halibut. We paddled that way and I farmed two bites pretty quick. We were both fishing a 4" green sardine fish trap on a 1/2oz head. It seemed to dry up again for the next ten minutes when I get whacked close to me tube as I'm hopping the swimbait off the bottom. I eased the fish up and it was a nice one so Brian came over and did a nice job netting it. He handed the net over to me and I proceeded to get a soaking as the fish went aggro. Back at my house the flattie taped out at 31 inches and weighed 11lb 1oz. Nice fish for Goleta Beach! We kept at this area for the rest of our afternoon and I wound up getting 7 shorts and one little calico. The shorts were mostly 10-14" fish but one was about 19". They were all of course released. The water didn't feel all that warm but if you got close to the beach it seemed like it was a little warmer, just enough to hold the bait and the halibut in that zone. I highly reccomend the 4" green sardine fish trap for the inshore flatties. The retrieve that seemed to work the best was a crank crank, stop hit bottom, crank crank, stop hit bottom. Slacking the line as it dropped to give it a vertical drop and make the sand poof up around the bait seemed to trigger the bites. The summer's not over yet!