Sorry but ain't nothing about me short or sweet, but I'll try. I power drift, modified ball bouncing. If you look at the picture of my boat at beginning of this post you will notice a trolling plate attached to the cavation plate of my Yamaha. This cuts down speed at idle to between .7 and1.3 mph. Critical to drag baits in an controlled path along structure. My favorites are dropoffs , dredge lines, and anchor points for shipping. For those of you lucky enough to fish LA Harbor, anchor poits are
CRITICAL.These are shown on NOAA charts as large circles with a dot in center. Think.......every week on this hard bottom ships drop 7 ton anchors on the dot, swing around some, then pull it up making a nice soft depression to lay in ambush in. Halibut are not bottom feeders, they are bottom ambushers that are always looking up. Enough of those hard earned secrets, on to rigs. I fish 6 to 10 rigs at once on my boat.........all are 8 ft Calstars except 2 that are custom 1 piece 12 fters.
All are loaded with 50 lb test spectra straight to a swivel. On the spectra is a sinker slide. Approx. 3 ft of 30 lb florocarbon leader with a chartreuse hoochie 3 or 4 beads to a single owner SSW , 1/0 or 1 tied on with nail knot , tag end to #4 Owner stinger hook as a trap. If you are not using a trap, you are missing 75%of your Halibut. On the sinker slide is 12 oz to24 oz weight on 16 to30 inch 12 lb leader with a swivel to change out weight as needed. Heavier weights towards bow, you want your rigs as straight up and down as possible to stay away from tangles, and you will have tangles, from sharks,black seabass, white seabass, and the large Hallies.Oh so fun.Always keep boat in gear, even when hooked up to stay away from tangles, rods in holders in gear with trolling straps, hope you can't get them out of the holder, thats how you know it a toad. Good luck,,I'll be in the Harbor This Sat. at sunrise,call on 88a. Trolling plate available at Bass Pro or Cabela's as "The Happy Troller"
At 8.30 I get a 28" shaker. Small lull till 9.40 when Marks rod in holder gets pinned to rail, very funny to watch, soon I gaff his new personnel best 38" 22lb'r, is he ever happy. 
big guy!
