Halibut Fishing 101

. . . and try to keep the fish calm . . .

Good luck with that.

The very LAST thing I would do is to leave them dangling over board. Bring burlap with you. This very day a big bull lion keyed in on this one while reeling it up. Then it looked at Solsrfr1"s hali tail sticking out of the burlap. I got to see Mike play lion Tamer. A righteous act!!!! This was drifting whole squid on a slider/ 3 ft leader. 2/0 mutu circle hook

nice butt craig!