Can you fish for halibut by tightlining?

leeeeeroy jenkins · 26-10-09, 22:50

Boat is gone, so i was just planning to use a chunk of salmon belly on a nice big treble hook and a pyramid sinker and just drop it off the pier. Is that alright? the water is about 20 feet deep maybe.

Dan B · 12-11-09, 00:50

"Halibut" are fish most often found in deep waters, sometimes well below 200' and farther. It is unlikely that you will find them in 20 feet. More likely, you will find your bait has disappeared when the crab and small fish find the offering and gang up on it to carry it off one bite full at a time within a matter of minutes. So instead of fishing for "buts", consider baiting up a chunk of whatever and lob it out just as far as you can wing it. Using that method off the dock in Whittier, Alaska, friends of mine and I had a ball catching big rough fish such as cod, Irish Lords, etc. You never know for sure just what can be pulled up from the depths, but you still have to get out there to see what happens. Most of the bigger fish only come in to the shallows to feed, and that seems to happen most just about dark. But what the heck....just go and have fun. That's really what it's all about anyway. Right?

26-10-09, 22:50	#1
leeeeeroy jenkins Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 3	Can you fish for halibut by tightlining? Boat is gone, so i was just planning to use a chunk of salmon belly on a nice big treble hook and a pyramid sinker and just drop it off the pier. Is that alright? the water is about 20 feet deep maybe.

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12-11-09, 00:50	#2
Dan B Join Date: Jul 2008 Posts: 13	"Halibut" are fish most often found in deep waters, sometimes well below 200' and farther. It is unlikely that you will find them in 20 feet. More likely, you will find your bait has disappeared when the crab and small fish find the offering and gang up on it to carry it off one bite full at a time within a matter of minutes. So instead of fishing for "buts", consider baiting up a chunk of whatever and lob it out just as far as you can wing it. Using that method off the dock in Whittier, Alaska, friends of mine and I had a ball catching big rough fish such as cod, Irish Lords, etc. You never know for sure just what can be pulled up from the depths, but you still have to get out there to see what happens. Most of the bigger fish only come in to the shallows to feed, and that seems to happen most just about dark. But what the heck....just go and have fun. That's really what it's all about anyway. Right?