New PB Halibut

[FishJerk]

Made plans to hit the beach with my buddy Sean. Not sure what we were gonna run into as the forecast was for 50% chance of rain and it was drizzling when I picked him up. The day turned out great, stayed overcast till around 9-10, no rain, low surf and slack tide coming.Overall we had some great conditions today.

We picked up some of the usual suspects: mac, bone, pancakes and calicos, Sean picked up a Juvie WSB & I scored my second Legal halibut and new PB, all 35.5 inches of Fatty Flatty.

I got a big hit while working a spot Sean had said to hit while he went back to rework another spot. First cast, picked up a micro bone at 8-10 in that I decided to keep for bait. 2nd cast, 1/2 way in, BANG, zzzz zzzz zzzz. I could tell it was a big fish, but didn't know just how big. Originally, I was thinking either a nice legal hali or a big Calico by the way it was fighting. Heavy strong fish, head shakes and stayed deep. After a couple good runs, as the fish got into the surf zone, it did a somersault and I caught a glimpse of the huge white belly and tail, I was like, "Holy S**t, big Hali!. I knew then that I wanted a landing assist with this one, so I bellowed for Sean who was 200yds down the beach and frantically waved him to get his rear over to me. Once Sean arrives and I get the beast into the shallows, it took 3-4 tries to get her far enough up the beach for Sean to get a good tail grab and finish pushing her up the sand. We took some pics and back in the water she goes. I big tail slap to say goodbye and off she goes strong as can be.

Epic day on the sand and thanks for reading.

[TUNAVIC]

Wow nice fat flatty for sure! I'm thrilled when I get one on my skiff,it must be total elation to score a beauty like that from the surf,WTG! Congrats on the PB.

Cya Tuna Vic

[bobabocker]

nice fish... probably the fish of the lifetime from the surf! Saw the Vid Sean posted on FB amazing!

[Fishingdachronarch201E7]

Congrats, awesome work!!

[simijab]

damn that's a toad. Congrats!!!!

[anchor3n1]

Hi Ron:

Nice seeing you again at HG 7 (pretty sure I met you back in August when I bumped into Sean on the beach ). So awesome catch. Probably one of the biggest from the sand this week. Major PROPS on the release - I think you made everybody's day on that.

Take care,

Nick

[Spottie]

Way to go man, nice fish!

[bachiboy]

Incredible job Ron!!! Big Congrats on your PB and kudos on the release!!!

Don

[SP Dan]

Hi ya FishJerk,

Congratulations on your PB!

I'm so grateful to read in your report of some; possibly, Fall flatty's starting to cruise they're way in! Fingers crossed!!

Great fish action .... very nice read!

SP Dan <"))><

[fishshep]

Wow Have not seen a flatty caught that size in over a year !!! Congrat,s