Alaska halibut fishing isn't so much a huge battle, as it is in just lifting the fish to the surface. Big Alaska halibut are called "barn doors" and that is how they feel. It's simply a big weight, that sometimes shakes, and at times heads itself back right down to the underside when you have hauled it up half of the way. Up and down, up and down. They are not like ling cod, where you've got to pay persistent, observant attention to the line and not permit any slack to come into the line. You'll be able to take it easy and drag up the fish at your, because they are usually hooked fairly well.
Hooking Alaska halibut sometimes sounds like you've snagged something. Sometimes they don't move or fight or maybe attempt to swim back right down to the underside at all. It's simply a matter of hauling the fish up to the surface. Since you'll be fishing in one hundred-two hundred or a lot of feet of water, it will take a while to urge them up. Some fish do lash around a bit, and a traditional reaction to being hooked is for Alaska halibut to swim back right down to the underside after you've got pulled it up a bit. The rare Alaska halibut can begin along the bottom after it's been hooked. Sometimes, a huge Alaska halibut will do that, however the high speed run will usually last for only several seconds.
Often, merely hauled it back toward you and upwards. They may all of a sudden bolt into action and return for the bottom. Whenever you're in one hundred fifty feet of water or a lot of, it will grow to be heaps of work. You'll pull it up over [*fr1] way to the top, and it could abruptly choose to move go into reverse, and then hurl or fly across the bottom of the ocean at excessive momentum. Even when your reel drag is set at its maximum setting, it may seem as if it is doing nothing, even with the rod bent over sort of a horseshoe. Very rarely can an Alaska halibut try this feat more than some times before finally becoming tired. Then simply haul the fish to the surface. Whenever Alaska halibut weigh around one hundred twenty five pounds, this activity will definitely wear you out.
Bigger halibut do not in general mean better fight. We've capturedbigger Alaska halibut, but hundred pounders appear to supply the most effective fight from our experience. For instance, we were fishing and hooked a legitimate monster three hundred+ pound Alaska halibut. It took no more than about 20 minutes to get it to the surface, but that was additional as a result of of the burden than from any massive fight put up by the fish. Once an incredibly giant Alaska halibut comes to the surface, the lunker could look more like an island than a fish next to the boat. This is particularly true when you are in a smaller craft, like a 16 foot skiff. These larger Alaska halibut may be half the length of the craft!
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