I am kind of new to the halibut fishing i have spent alot of time and no fish I have tried spreader bars with every kind of bait you could imagine I am going to try trolling this weekend as well as using the spreader bar.
Does anyone have any tips or any good gps locations to try at like hein, eastern or partridge that would be great I am getting sick of no bites and no fish anything else I can catch but for somereason these fish elude me somthing bad any kind of hints or tips would be great

As with any other fishery you've gots to go to where the fish are! The banks you listed are pretty much barren of fish by the time the season opens.(Lots of incidental catches by blackmouth fisherman Jan,Feb and March) They've already started thier migration out to the deep blue ocean. So places like Neah Bay and the coastal ports are your best bets. Good Luck! Email me I can provide some more info.

I may be wrong, but trolling for halibut isn't likely to be successful. As I understand it, halibut don't chase their meal down. Rather, they wander on over to something that smells or looks reasonable (as in not likely to swim away) and gulp it down. I caught halibut in Alaska on big bloody hunks of salmon gills and belly strips. That's gotta be all about smell, not looks or realistic action. We were anchored, BTW.

Don't be too quick to dismiss trolling, while a bit un-orthodox in the halibut fishing world, trolling can be as or more effective than soaking baits. I guide in Alaska, and 99% of the time fish are prevelant enough that you can get away with waiting for them to come to you, sometimes they're too spread out though and you have to change tactics. Slow trolling, 2 knots or less with a big flasher and small herring is dynamite for halibut. Fishing out of Homer, halibut often become a welcome nuisance when trolling for kings near the bottom.
If you hit the doldrums while fishing for halibut, downsize your baits or lures. A 2 ounce point wilson dart is candy for almost every fish in the ocean, sometimes dropping a scampi or dart down with the bait rods will get the halibut conned into feeding. My staple bait for halibut are horse herring, but again if the bite turns off, dropping a troll-size herring down on light line usually sparks things up again. One of my favorite rigs is to take a salmon mooching leader with double octopus hooks and hook a troll herring onto each hook through the nose. Try it sometime and look at their action in the water, two bright baitfish darting back and forth right next to eachother is hard to resist.

good luck
david

http://www.deepstrikeAK.com

I have got some tips on the trolling to use the wolverine spoons in the purple and silver color and use a big red flasher and they say that it works I like the tip on the 2 hearing I will have to try that something has got to work I blind worm will catch a worm some day or another.