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A thread about fishing.....just for the halibut.....
- Thread starter hal9000
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WTF!
Couple years back up at Yakutat we were out on the ocean fishing halibut and my buddy hooked what we thought was the mother of all flatties.
Took 1/2 hr to get it up to the boat.
Turned out to be the mother of all skates, farkn' thing was as wide as the boat, scared the $hit out of me.
Maybe, but I question how alive it was. That looks like a shrimp trawler which are notorious for mounds of dead bycatch.
Probably similar gear but probably groundfish trawling due to location.
Nice fish. Congrats! Were you guys out at the 43?
I was out for 3 days on my buddies 50' Hatt. last Thur-Sat.
Started day 1 at 43 with everyone else. Landed two BFT on the spreader bar. A 30 and a 60.
Then went to SCI to anchor at Pyramid and loaded up on reds in the morning then headed to Tanner.
Weather was up out there a bit but fishable. Very few boats there but guess who was. We were right by BillyK and Grindmentality who were fishing the flyers under the kites. We were doing the same. They were getting tight but we struck out. That's fishing.
Headed into Cat Harbor for the night and made a nice tank full of Spanish for targeting lingcod in the AM. Struck out on lings then went chasing marlin out towards the Osborn and struck out there too. Life, dolphins, whales, birds everywhere. It was the zone so if we couldn't get it done there it wasn't going to happen.
It was a nice 3 days at sea except that we lost both heads the morning of the 2nd day and had to resort to the bucket.
yeah we were somewhere near the 43 and the corner. All day plunker bite for some of the meanest 25-40 lb YFT ever. Super fun. Went south the second day down to the 390 then back up to the butterfly to get away from people but despite good water it was dead. Fun trip. And I didn't have to drive and look for fish lol.
^^ We could have filled the hold with reds they were biting so good but had enough and were looking for bigger fish to fry.
The boat has a commercial vacuum sealer in the galley which was really nice. Everything got vacuum sealed.
The fish hold has it's own chipped ice maker and the ice just rolls out into the hold from that gray pipe thing you can see in the pic.
He also has electric reels that we were using for the deep drops and the spreader bar fished way back which was just hilarious. Just push the button and in comes a tuna or a gangion with heavy lead and rockfish.
I could get used to that. LOL.
The boat has a commercial vacuum sealer in the galley which was really nice. Everything got vacuum sealed.
The fish hold has it's own chipped ice maker and the ice just rolls out into the hold from that gray pipe thing you can see in the pic.
He also has electric reels that we were using for the deep drops and the spreader bar fished way back which was just hilarious. Just push the button and in comes a tuna or a gangion with heavy lead and rockfish.
I could get used to that. LOL.
Having a good friend with a large boat is the best
Dayum, Shelter Cove producing again! In close too..now it's 14@20 though, so there's that...
Back to that time of year here. Fish should have taped out close to 50" and 40+lbs. Safe release.