Headed out to Constance this AM to try my luck at Halibut. One side was salmon head with the trusty circle hook with a 9" plastic squid, the other side was a large herring with a plastic squid. Pretty much as soon as I'd get the line set up on the bottom, the herring side, I would hook me up a dog fish. After the 4th dog, I changed it up to a piece of octopus, I think the dogs like this even more. So after 2 more dogs, I changed and went to both sides with a salmon head on a circle hook. Great day on the water, no wind, and at the point when my Halibut hit today, the Scotsman was just sitting in the water with slack rope on the anchor line. Brought the Halibut up, it was going to be close, 114cm!
I'd gone through all of my salmon heads today, but luckily there was a group cleaning 5 salmon at the cleaning table in Esquilmalt, so now I'm stocked up again.