halibut from the beach???

[shadowless_nite]

Hmmm.... I don't see why you couldn't do what we down here in the columbia for salmon from shore. We tow our lines out with a kayak and a breakaway dropper weight which is just a rock with a 8-10lb mono piece of line with a knot tied into it. You should be able to do the same with a sinker slider tied to a rock and tow it out to your hearts desire. Guys out here drag there lines out hundreds of feet from sure. Definitely well  beyond casting range and keeping your bait in perfect  shape. When a fish hits it rings your bell and either breaks the rock lose or you break it off when you set the hook (run up the beach with your rod) allowing ypu to fish the fish weight free and less likely to snag. Same is done with sturgeon down here.

[Smossy]

no. just no. wont happen.

[wadu1]

Hmmm.... I don't see why you couldn't do what we down here in the columbia for salmon from shore. We tow our lines out with a kayak and a breakaway dropper weight which is just a rock with a 8-10lb mono piece of line with a knot tied into it. You should be able to do the same with a sinker slider tied to a rock and tow it out to your hearts desire. Guys out here drag there lines out hundreds of feet from sure. Definitely well  beyond casting range and keeping your bait in perfect  shape. When a fish hits it rings your bell and either breaks the rock lose or you break it off when you set the hook (run up the beach with your rod) allowing ypu to fish the fish weight free and less likely to snag. Same is done with sturgeon down here.

Back in the day they used heavy rods and belly reels like this for sturgeon.

[Stein]

Hmmm.... I don't see why you couldn't do what we down here in the columbia for salmon from shore. We tow our lines out with a kayak and a breakaway dropper weight which is just a rock with a 8-10lb mono piece of line with a knot tied into it. You should be able to do the same with a sinker slider tied to a rock and tow it out to your hearts desire. Guys out here drag there lines out hundreds of feet from sure. Definitely well  beyond casting range and keeping your bait in perfect  shape. When a fish hits it rings your bell and either breaks the rock lose or you break it off when you set the hook (run up the beach with your rod) allowing ypu to fish the fish weight free and less likely to snag. Same is done with sturgeon down here.

If your bait is stationary you have about 1/20th as much of a chance of catching a halibut compared with a moving bait.  Halibut really like attacking moving stuff where salmon or sturgeon will take stuff not moving.  It will also get attacked by a bunch of other things if it's just plunked on the bottom.

[shadowless_nite]

Hmmm.... I don't see why you couldn't do what we down here in the columbia for salmon from shore. We tow our lines out with a kayak and a breakaway dropper weight which is just a rock with a 8-10lb mono piece of line with a knot tied into it. You should be able to do the same with a sinker slider tied to a rock and tow it out to your hearts desire. Guys out here drag there lines out hundreds of feet from sure. Definitely well  beyond casting range and keeping your bait in perfect  shape. When a fish hits it rings your bell and either breaks the rock lose or you break it off when you set the hook (run up the beach with your rod) allowing ypu to fish the fish weight free and less likely to snag. Same is done with sturgeon down here.

If your bait is stationary you have about 1/20th as much of a chance of catching a halibut compared with a moving bait.  Halibut really like attacking moving stuff where salmon or sturgeon will take stuff not moving.  It will also get attacked by a bunch of other things if it's just plunked on the bottom.

Ahhhh.... makes sense. I also know nothing about halibut fishing. Lol

[the mule]

we used to catch them pretty close to the the spit at Port Angeles back in the late 70s, but that was in July

[3boys]

Hmmm.... I don't see why you couldn't do what we down here in the columbia for salmon from shore. We tow our lines out with a kayak and a breakaway dropper weight which is just a rock with a 8-10lb mono piece of line with a knot tied into it. You should be able to do the same with a sinker slider tied to a rock and tow it out to your hearts desire. Guys out here drag there lines out hundreds of feet from sure. Definitely well  beyond casting range and keeping your bait in perfect  shape. When a fish hits it rings your bell and either breaks the rock lose or you break it off when you set the hook (run up the beach with your rod) allowing ypu to fish the fish weight free and less likely to snag. Same is done with sturgeon down here.

If your bait is stationary you have about 1/20th as much of a chance of catching a halibut compared with a moving bait.  Halibut really like attacking moving stuff where salmon or sturgeon will take stuff not moving.  It will also get attacked by a bunch of other things if it's just plunked on the bottom.

I have caught hundreds of sport hali. The majority of the time on anchor. We have always called it soakin for butts. I did catch a few a couple weeks ago commercial trolling. Years ago we did hook some from shore on the north side of cook inlet. It was a remote area where we landed the plane on the beach and fished.

[lokidog]

You could deploy with a remote controlled boat or drone to exceed casting distance. Hard to imagine finding any close to shore though.