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Red Drum
07-04-2009, 04:59 PM
Went out to Santa Rosa Island with my good friend Martin “the looper” aboard the “Big Drum”. The weather conditions in the morning were great but it got a little snotty in the afternoon with consistent wind speeds between 13 & 15 knots.

We decided to forgo fishing for Rockfish and opted to try and catch a big Halibut or two or three. We drift fished for a little while, but we mostly employed the bounce ball technique.

While drift fishing with frozen squid, Martin pulled in his personal best Whitefish at 27 inches/7.5 pounds. Way to go Martin!! That’s a nice poor man’s Yellowtail.
http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h177/Big_Drum/LynnandValeriesVacation2009031.jpg

After bounce balling for a couple hours, I finally hooked a nice fish, and it turned out to be my personal best Halibut at 48 inches/ 33.5 pounds. Sweeeet!!
http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h177/Big_Drum/LynnandValeriesVacation2009033.jpg
http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h177/Big_Drum/LynnandValeriesVacation2009035.jpg

When we were driving back to port, we were stopped by 4 DFG wardens aboard their impressive aluminum cat “Swordfish”, about 1.5 miles east of Gull Island. They checked our licenses, fish and then informed us that they could’ve given us a ticket for not having our fishing rods stowed away in the cabin because we had driven through a marine preserve with the rods in the rod holders. I told them I wasn’t aware of that law and said that next time I’ll be sure to drive around the closure area.

Had another memorable fishing trip out on the big pond, I can’t wait to do it again. HOOK-UP!!

Till next tide,

fi5h_eye
07-04-2009, 05:21 PM
WOW!!Nice Catch guys!!! Super Nice Hali!!!!

Oz
07-04-2009, 06:36 PM
whitefish porn!!!!! :LOL: congrats on your 2 pertsonal bests man. thats a nice lookin hali also :Cool:

JapanRon
07-04-2009, 07:01 PM
Hi Red Drum,

Very, very nice couple of fish. Nice PBs !! Congrats.

tsurikichi

Greg Madrigal
07-04-2009, 10:34 PM
REdiculous....as always! You need youe own show on ESPN!!!!!!

Nice Whity. I love to eat those things, hell, I didn't even know thay got that big!

Thanks 4 the post!

GM<><

BigBass777
07-04-2009, 11:41 PM
Whoa! That halibut is an awesome catch!!

murrieta angler
07-05-2009, 07:39 AM
As usual, nice fish...... Are going to change your avatar!? lol

TShaffer
07-05-2009, 11:50 AM
That's a pretty sizable whitefish. Wtg on the big halis as well.

madbass
07-05-2009, 01:31 PM
Red Drum,
I always enjoy reading your reports, they pumpe me up!!!! Congratualtions on your personal best halibut!!!!

Sac au Lait
07-06-2009, 11:29 AM
so If i don't have a cuddy cabin I'll have to go around the closure area's?

deanhall32
07-06-2009, 02:39 PM
Very nice fish!! Did DFG at least complement you on your catch?

ToadsToadsOnly
07-06-2009, 02:48 PM
Wow thats a nice butt great job on the pb

CalamARI
07-07-2009, 03:49 PM
Congrats on that big butt!

fishmaniac
07-10-2009, 10:01 AM
WTG on the Hali man!

TroutOnly
07-11-2009, 09:31 AM
NICE FLATTIE,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,t/o

tmartin
07-11-2009, 12:13 PM
Very nice looking fish, way to go!

CudaChaser
07-12-2009, 06:10 AM
beautiful whitefish - good eating too. Halibut is not shabby either :-) Way to put the steel on these two lunkers. Thanks for the picts and the nice report.

CudaChaser