Rick Ferguson "DaGoose"

First Shot
Mar. 17 2009, 4:17 PM

As much as I want my first blog filled with tales of big halibut and photos of friends holding them with big old flattie grins, the fish just aren’t cooperating at the moment. I’ve pounded a lot of sand bounce-balling on four trips in the last two weeks, from Dana Point to Carlsbad, in depths ranging from 25 to 130 feet – for not even one short. It may actually be five trips, but who’s counting at this point? Others are experiencing the same results, as well.

The more I fish for halibut, the more I realize I know nothing. Every day is different. An area might produce for a few months then dry up completely. Then again, you never really know if they are down there and just not biting. It’s amazing how you can work an area all day then suddenly they start to chew and it stops as suddenly as it started. It might last hours or minutes. Sometimes it’s related to the tides, sometimes it’s not. I guess that’s the beauty of fishing. Fish have their own agenda.

One day in the next few weeks it’s going to happen. It’s springtime, after all, and the flatties will move in to spawn. How sweet it will be when it does. In the meantime, I’ll keep trying, enjoying each day on the water with my friends. That’s really what matters most (although they say I’m a bit grumpy lately, too).

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Rick Ferguson "DaGoose"

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