What a Beast!

[kjackson]

On 3/16/2022 at 5:54 AM, Quillback said:

Big halibut are another one, it's like lifting a horizontal piece of 3/4" plywood off the bottom, then you make some progress and the plywood swims back to the bottom.  In 300 FOW.  

That is the perfect description--if you hooked the sheet of plywood in the middle.  While I tend to remember the really big fish I've lost, I do not remember big halibut, probably because it is work, and I am not fond of that. There was one day where I didn't drop my gear down to the bottom simply because I didn't want to hook another halibut.

The largest halibut I've landed was guesstimated at 190 pounds by the skipper. It wasn't the largest we caught that day, nor the largest we lost.  This image gives you an idea of just how massive these critters are.