Nice sized flatfish and a lot of good eating, but a record?
Don’t Pacific halibut normally run a lot larger?
Pacific Halibut and Summer Flounder (Fluke) are completely different species.
There’s also Atlantic Halibut, which can be hundreds of pounds, but they were massively overfished and there are very few of them left. They’re also a different species.
We could flounder around for the halibut over flatfish definitions and any consensus we came to would be a fluke.
2 years ago, I went fishing in Alaska. I caught 4 halibut in 2 ocean trips. My biggest was 75 lbs and the smallest about 50 lbs. I saw a 125 pounder caught on one of my trips. Most of the fish caught on these trips were 40-60 lbs. You can only catch 2 fish and you have to decide as you catch them whether to keep em or toss em back, so you actually catch several, but throw back the smaller ones as you catch them.