How-to: Trap Rig for HALIBUT

BDOutdoors' own Ricky Fischel is onboard Sekas Sportfishing with Christian Sekas at Catalina Island fishing for some shallow water halibut. In this video they explain how to use the trap rig when fishing for halibut with live bait. The trap rig will allow you to capitalize on significantly more of your bites via the stinger hook, and is an extremely effective way to fish for halibut.

Let us know if you like to use the trap rig when fishing for halibut, and what you'd like to see next!

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[seaweedmike]

This also catches lingcod very well. they tend miss the nose hook and get caught on the treble

[timpowell]

This is more a how to bait a fishing hook. I was looking for some insight on halibut. How long should the leader be? What type of sinker?

[koogle]

The stinger does get those short bites but it kills that natural movement of your live bait. The captain I fish with for Ca hali never uses a stinger. After finding the fastest bait in the tank you dont want to put a hk in both ends of it plus - Ive caught 35 lb ones on a 1/0 owner needle point/perfection loop & 4 ft fluoro 20 lb test with a very light drag. I dont plan on trying anything else as Ive already tried everything.

[gabrieldelatrinidad]

You don't need a sinker for this fishing?

[serpentrae]

will it matter if i use steel leader in the s.f. bay for halibut because the water is a green color

[Stickyfingers]

If you don't know how to snell a hook, then use a Carolina keeper for the first hook

[ryan_]

What type of leader line and what line of main line do you guys run and what lb

[chazzman]

My stinger hooks continually fall out after the bait swims for a few seconds. Any suggestions?

[awildgrendel]

How about telling how many lbs to use? How to tie the stinger to the J hook? How far the leader shoukd be from the swivel? Smh.