should i use frozen sqiud, mussels, frozen or salted chovies or live sardines or smelt, mackeral or surf perch.
an old timer i saw slaughterin at the peir was using small perch hooked through the center of the body.
i could make a mackeral bleed and ancher him down
should i be shallow behind surf or at the endof the pier
should i try to get my bait as far out away from structure or just in the pilings?
if you veiw this reply!!!
thanks everyone lemme have it...

live bait such as smelt, sardine, small perch etc. is the way to go,

fish the middle section of the pier and casting is up to you.


hope the info helps,
aaron

Aaron
Gimme

I don't do alot of pier fishing but for halibut in general if you can get the live bait, it's on. Smelt would be my first choice with small macks as a possibility. Chovies are good choice for the frozen varieties and are best when slow dragged across the bottom. You can substitute sardines if you can't get the choves. But the smelt is by far the best Butt' bait around. Most of the time you can jig them up from the pilings with small bait rigs or small shiny hooks, too. Tip them with little pieces of either bread or bait. The flatties will hang around the pilings as well as out beyond the surf zone. Just remember, if you have smelt for bait and the butts are hanging around, they will definately find it. You don't have to place it right in the structure, the barny's will readily venture out aways to attack a struggling bait. Hope this helps and let the board know how you make out with them Butts.


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Use the live smelts and cast under the piers.

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