Outstanding job on the tanker!

Congrats on the beast.....

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What a beast!!! If 60 pounders are being caught now I can't imagine what the next few weeks will bring

how much line?
 

I let out about 30 or so yards of line, maybe 40. I let out a lot of line, just so i can be as quiet as possible.

Funny, of my 3 total SB in my life, one at exactly high noon, and one at around 11:00 am, and the third early, but in super-thick, scary fog.

The two at noon and 11:00am were with almost no other boats in site, so super-quiet. And I know most seem to be caught either in the dark, or pre-sunrise, but that's too early for me lately.

Toad, toad, toad!!! Congratulations.
You're only showing 11 posts, but I believe I loaned you my gaff on one of your very first yellows off of LJ, some 6 years ago. You use to list your home town as Spring Valley, correct?

holy cheeeeersss :cheers1:

Hi Aaron and Julie..... I've live in La Mesa for 11 years, and that must have been another on the gaff lending. What I want to learn from you was how did you land that 40+ pound halibut?!? I still wonder how to bring in a really BIG halibut on a yak. I hear they go ballistic. And the one 32" I caught, even after having slit it's neck (on a power boat), still, 15 minutes later it jumped out of the tank! and that was only 11 pounds! I am scared at what a 40 pounder can do!!!

Yeah, halibut and ballslapper dorado I would imagine are not too fun to deal with.