The photo contest winner for the month of February belongs to Brian Johansen. He caught this 23" halibut in Dana Pt. using the aquamarine swimgrub! This picture doesnt have the bait included, but since he had one of those chest cameras strapped on and recording the battle, and the bait was visible in the video I honored the entry of this picture. There was also a taped shot but hard to see. Here is the link to the video if you would like to see it
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvX506hJWGs&feature=youtube_gdata
The aquamarine pattern continues to be the bait that seems to grab the halibuts attention, out of 61 halibut I have caught last year, 44 of them were caught on that pattern. It will not surprise me if the next few halibut photos that come in will have that pattern in it.
I was going to have a seperate photo contest for halibut for this month only, but I have decided to make it last through the end of August. So starting now, there is a halibut photo contest as well as the normal photo contest(for any fish other than halibut). There have been signs of few stray grunion already and 2 weeks from now I am expecting a few halis caught. This should get interesting :) Good luck to everyone!
