Alaska angler wins epic struggle with monster halibut

Check this out that is a BIG BUTT
http://www.grindtv.com/outdoor/blog/19706/alaska+angler+wins+epic+struggle+against+monster+halibut/

I have to wonder if the meat would be as good on a fish that size as it is on the smaller ones. My only experience was with one about a third of that weight, but it was delicious.

That is one fat flattie. To snap the 100#spectra the drag must have been buttoned down hard.

thanks for the link!

Harpoon-harpoon-gunshot....I am carrying the wrong tools on my kayak.

The halibut was motionless until one of them flung a harpoon into its flesh. "The fish went berserk," Levasseur said.

Ya think? 

nice fish but how bout that article on the bottom " california white sharks populations on the rise"

As I general rule I avoid looking at public comments to articles since they're usually so moronic, but this is too ridiculous. Can you imagine seeing that thing crawling up the beach?   

Posted by han2loe August 11, 2010 03:03pm PDTReply

Can't rejoice at such. So barbarous and primitive. No victory in ending in terror the life of such a long lived amphibian.

nice fish but how bout that article on the bottom " california white sharks populations on the rise"

Nice headline, grabs you right by the paddle, doesn't it? Further on down the article is a quote by a researcher that I prefer, one Salvador Jorgensen, leader of the white shark research team at Stanford University's Hopkins Marine Station:

"Currently we are finding that the total number of adult white sharks along the west coast of North America is much smaller than many people expected."

I'm OK with that . . . sorry for the thread-jack!

Dang fine Barn Door that guy caught!!!

2 harpoons and a gunshot to take down this 'but, that's a fish I'd like to meet @ the end of MY line!

100lb test, wow!

Harpoons? Sounds more like "Moby Dick"! 

Not nearly as impressive as this recent catch.   

-Allen

How in the heck did he land that from a kayak?  Was that the biggest ever from a kayak?

Rey

Largest is 183#.  This one went 121#.

-Allen

Now were talkin'! Thank Polepole.
My only experience was with one that same size from a PB. Even with the harpoon, .410 to the head, gaff, & spine separation the fish still popped up once on the way back to port and flipped the lid off of one of those big commercial fish boxes like it was nothing.

To land that fish from a kayak is amazing.

Where's the rest of the tale? Was it subdued from the kayak or from shore?(I'm not bagging at all but just curious-I'd think you'd have to beach the boat & kill it on shore)

This same guys has multiple butts over 100#.  Next year I'm going to try to lead a trip to the land of 100 pound kayak halibut.  Wanna know how to land one?  Let's find out.  Who's in?

-Allen

Allen stealthily prepares his bait with a big circle hook invisibly hidden within a picture of a kayaker posing next to his boat with a Barn Door Halibut trophy. . . semi-innocently dropping the photo into a discussion of big Halibut scores from a power boat, he floats the photo with no caption, lets it drift . . . . . . nibble, nibble . . . . nibble

Next year I'm going to try to lead a trip to the land of 100 pound kayak halibut.  Wanna know how to land one?  Let's find out.  Who's in?

-Allen

WHAM!!! Allen sets the hook! - Sheesh, how many of us did he get on one drop???? Alright; when, where, duration and cost?