It was another beautiful day in Bandon when we left the docks at 6am. The waves over the bar were small and rolling and we set off to catch that deep-water pancake known as the Pacific Halibut aboard the Prowler owned by Prowler Charters.
When we got out to the place known as the high spot we were there with 6 or 7 other boats trying to catch the same thing, a monster halibut.
Starting in about 550 feet of water to nearly 750 we drift down the hill with a 3 pound ball of lead and a nice juicy 10 inch squid.
Our first drift we only got one small halibut about 15 pounds or so. After resetting we started the drift again. I hear someone say there’s a big one hooked up on the bow.
Since I was there primarily to film people catching halibut I set my rod in the holder and head up front. It turns out there are 2 up front. The first is a big blue shark which I filmed first (SEE VIDEO HERE).
After that I start to film this guy as he pulls on a pretty good sized halibut. After another 4 minutes or so he had it landed. It was somewhere between 45 – 50 pounds.
The halibut put up a pretty good fight and from over 600 feet this guy really had his work cut out for him.
ALBANY (AP) — New boating permit fees may be hard for Oregon to collect.
The Legislature approved fees of $5 a year on anyone operating a manually propelled craft of 10 feet or longer, and a $5 surcharge on the biennial registration of powerboats.
Nonresidents will pay about $20 for permits.
The new fees are supposed to raise money for efforts to stop invasive water creatures and plants from getting into Oregon.
But even though the fees don’t take effect until Jan. 1, officials say it will be difficult to collect them because the Oregon constitution prohibits mandatory boat inspections.
As part of my previous post I told you I would have some videos from our fishing trip on Thursday. Because I was the one filming you won’t see me in the video, but if you like the video, who cares!
There are a few more videos that I didn’t see on here that can be seen on ProwlerCharters.com as I was using their camera to shoot these videos.
