08-27-2004, 10:44 PM
rravare:Since you are new to the Butt attack let me give you one method that has been a killer in the past. You can catch-em in the surf but they are easier to target from rock jettys. Two places have been killers in the past. The north Huntington Harbor or (ammunition dump jetty) The north Alamitos Bay jetty. Equipment: 5 gallon bucket; small bait snagging rig, no.#14 hooks; 6-8 pound mono on a small spinning rig; sliding egg sinker 1/2 ounce; no #4 or no #6 Octopus hooks and a gaff. Fish very close to the beach. Snag small smelt from the rocks where you plan to fish, put them in the bucketuntil you have a couple for bait. Cast no more than 20 yards out and slowoooooooowly work them back. Most every butt stops your bait directly at your feet. I have caught many many 10 to 20 pounders over the years.In both of these places the current flows out to sea from shore. Halibut love to lay at the base of the rocks and ambush smelt or grunion as the current takes them out to sea.
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