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Join Date: Sep 2012
Location: San Diego
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REALLY Big Halibutt, would you keep it?
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Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: Santa Ana/Westminster
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Most likely
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Location: San Diego
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You could probably use the parasitc worms in it as bait they'd be so big
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Join Date: Nov 2012
Location: Orange County
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Hell yeah I would, that's food for the whole year!
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Join Date: Feb 2013
Location: San Diego, CA
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Gonna have to say keep. Not a record. Far from it as the record is like 450lbs+. My fish!!
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Join Date: May 2011
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nope. i'd figure out how to get a good pic though and then release it. a couple 40-60 lbers would be ideal.
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Yea not to sure if I would keep it or not, especially With a free fishing trip if I let it go.
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Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: OC, CA
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Tis better keeping the leviathans' genes in the ocean...
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agreed, release and get another trip pulling on fish. snap a picture and say goodbye
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Join Date: Aug 2012
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If I dropped serious $$ on an Alaskan fishing trip you better believe I'm keeping it.
As a good friend once said "this is a kill boat"
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Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Table 17, Bay Park Fish Co.
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If I spent big bucks getting up to alaska I'd keep it - Unless that free trip was the very next day, or while I was still up there. In that case I'd take the trip and bring home smaller fillets...
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Join Date: May 2007
Location: Chula Vista
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If it was the first day of a week long trip I might cut it loose and keep several smaller fish later in the trip. It would also depend on if I even had storage space for some thing like that.
I've heard folks say that the bigger pacific halibut are not the best to eat but when I was working AK one of our guys landed a 180 lb-er and I was delicious. Mike |
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people say that about big lobsters too, sounds like standard fishing code for "i catch dinks and this is my justification"
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Alaskan halibut is $29 per lb,,,definately keep it...over 400lbs yea keep it also...
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yeah so you have $12,000 worth of fish getting freezer burn or better yet, NOT IN YOUR FREEZER. i bed he either took 50lb of meat and justified the kill by giving the rest away to a shelter or he tried to have it processed and frozen and will lose 75% of the meat in the end anyways. I've caught a lot of big fish, and released 99% of them. might just be me but I'd rather have a smaller, more manageable amount of meat and a wall full of trophy pics. then again, I'm just in it for the sport and use most peoples dinner for bait.
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#16 |
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NOT true lowprofile my good friend and distinguished Senator from Florida
true if you fileted it and threw them in 1 gallon ziploc freezer bags
The properly frozen halibut filets from Alaska Charter Companies last 2 years and that fish would produce be about 120lbs of filet. The trips retail cost $3000-5000/person depending on the company and package if you want to fly-in a float plane. You usually go with friends and you can split that BIG catch. The freezer is full all year long -I have been 5 times and not 1 filet went bad... check out my San Diego Sports Magazine trip pictures here www.flickr.com/sdhuntfish/sets This year we did catch a 225 lb halibut and split it. check out the pictures taylor charters 2013..They had a slot limit the last 2 years under 45 inches are chickens and over 65 is the top slot - Maybe some day we can go when I get another set of discount trips in the future... ![]() http://taylorchartersfishing.com/ Last edited by Old Man in the Sea; 09-12-2013 at 09:32 PM. |
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