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One of my first reports on this site was also my first halibut landed on a kayak. Lets start by saying that I was even less prepared then you. Not only did I have no game clip, I had no gaff, net, knife, clue........So I get this 32" butt to color and have no clue how to handle him. I know better then to lip him like a bass, so I slide my hand inside his gills and pull him onto my lap. Im wearin board shorts. He bites down on the soft flesh of my inner thigh about an inch below my coin purse and gives a few head shakes before letting go. I hadacircle of puncture wounds and a dark purple bruise about 4-5"in diameter. Fish didn't get away though. learned my lesion that day.carry gaff, carry rope or game clip,loosen drag, gaff in the gut, secure fish, slide fish in with legs ON TOP OF FISH. Never in your lsp like your about to read it a bedtime story.
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