This year we celebrate the life of one of our favorite anglers, Jackie Cain who passed away last year CONTEST RUNS THROUGH JUNE 30TH We will have three top prizes for the Largest Halibut caught during this time, plus monthly raffles!

Prizes

GRAND PRIZE
Fifteen (15) ¾ Day Trips or twenty (20) ½ Day Trips, valued at $885.00! Plus, jacket, t-shirt and a voucher for a free pair of Kreed Polarized Sunglasses.

2ND PLACE
Rod and Reel from Okuma, jacket, t-shirt, two (2) ¾ Day Trips and a voucher for a free pair of Kreed Polarized Sunglasses.

3RD PLACE
G Outdoors Tackle Bag valued at $100.00, jacket, t-shirt, two (2) ½ Day Trips and a voucher for a free pair of Kreed Polarized Sunglasses.

IN ADDITION
Dana Wharf will award every angler who catches a halibut over 10 lbs. with one FREE trip (either ¾ or ½ Day) plus a voucher for a free pair of
Kreed Polarized Sunglasses.
As a bonus, anyone that catches a legal halibut that and releases it will win 2 FREE trips (either ¾ or ½ Day) released Halibut will not be entered in contest.

Rules of Eligibility

1. Eligible Halibut must be caught on a Dana Wharf Sportfshing boat, ¾ or ½ day trip.
2. To enter, just purchase a ticket (2 for 1 Special, Punch Cards, Donated Gift Certificate & Private Charters not eligible).
3. Halibut eligibility ticket for that day will be given to you when you purchase your ¾ or ½ day ticket and must be in your possession at all times.
4. Halibut’s weighing 10 lbs. or more qualify and will win a free fishing pass for a ¾ or ½ day trip, and if large enough will be placed on a leader board in the office for a chance at one of three top prizes. Halibut’s are weighed on board Dana Wharf’s vessels. (All vessels will have the same scale model.)
5. Minor crew assistance is permitted on the capture of the Halibut.

* Captain of the vessel has the final say of legality of fish.

Questions? Please ask! Call
DANA WHARF SPORTFISHING
949-496-5794

Some Halibut Fishing Tips

This seems to be a pretty popular set up among our anglers. There are quite a few variations of this set up. I prefer the reverse dropper loop set-up with a 3 or 4 oz. torpedo sinker. This means short sinker leader with a longer 24" leader to the hook. The "stinger hook" set up is probably the best. Snell in a regular 1/0 hook about 10" from the end of the leader (this distance really depends on the size of the bait that is being used). Then tie a treble hook on the tag end of the leader to act as the stinger hook. You then hook the 1/0 hook through the nose of the bait and the treble hook down by the anal fin of the bait with 2 of the 3 hooks exposed. A vast majority of the halibut I’ve seen caught have jus the stinger hook in its mouth. Pretty effective.

Drifting is typically the best “method” as you can cover some water. But you can however have some success if you have this type of set up and try fishing different areas of the boat and not just fishing in the same spot on the boat.

This picture shows all kinds of crazy stuff like swivels and beads. There are now 3 line connections that can fail. It’s not really necessary. Some people swear by it, I think if you can tie a decent knot on your dropper loop than a swivel is not necessary. If you feel more comfortable with tying the same knot on all the connections to the swivel then go for it. It’s all preference.

Hope this helps a bit.

-Brian (Capt. Of the Sum Fun)