Ive heard mackral is the best. I've personally never caught a halibut but I would love to hook onto one, guys I've talk to on the local forum say live maks work best, use a Carolina rig and no weight no trolling required in no more than 40 ft most butt like to hang out close to shore. If you have frozen maks use a Carolina rig with a sliding treble hook to hook onto the tail of the Mak and use a slinging weight at the top no more than oz start from shore and drag in sort of a zig zag formation trying to keep the bait about 4 ft from the bottom in prime location for a halibut dragging it on the bottom your more likely to pull up a ray again this is all what I've heard and haven't hooked into one yet
Sounds great, I hope you land a huge one! I didn't know they would hit moving bait.
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