[thackney]

Back on land, they found it measured 8ft 1in in length, 6ft 4in around the middle and weighed in at 443lb, 24lb more than the previous record for a line-caught halibut.

The Alaska State record for catching a halibut on sport fishing tackle is 459 lbs. Jack Tragis caught it in Unalaska Bay in 1996.

http://www.alaskaoutdoorjournal.com/Departments/Halloffame/famehalibut.html

http://www.sf.adfg.state.ak.us/region2/groundfish/gfhalibut.cfm

http://www.alaska-halibut-fishing-charters.com/halibut_biology.html

http://www.alaskansportsman.com/fish-and-game/trophy.shtml

[Elle Bee]

I remember those up near Sitka (sp?) they called them barn doors

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[43north]

No kidding. That Norski halibut isn’t THAT big!

At the boat launch in Homer there is a pictogram of a ‘but that was caught several years ago in a drift net in Southeast that was guesstimated to weigh over 1000lbs and was over 10 ft. long.

My biggest was 69” and 180lbs but you know what? The smaller ones taste better.