I miss Alaska...
Posted on 08/10/2010 10:14:50 AM PDT by thackney
Levasseur's halibut weighed 364 pounds, a whopping 110 pounds more than Mark Sams' previous derby leader, caught July 16.
Among Southcentral derby fish, only the 376-pounder that won the 25-year-old Homer Jackpot Halibut Derby for Minnesota angler Jerry Meinders in 1996 weighed more. The previous Valdez Derby record was a 343-pounder.
Fishing 170 feet deep in the Gulf of Alaska, some 100 miles out of Valdez, Levasseur hooked his fish early in the morning on a jig with herring. There was no mistaking what he had.
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Finally, a dark shadow approached from the deep that was so big even a veteran Alaska halibut angler like Levasseur was stunned for a moment.
"It just looked huge," he said. "I told my buddy, who's a big strong guy, get a harpoon in it."
The halibut didn't appreciate that.
"The fish went berserk," Levasseur said. "It snapped that 100-pound PowerPro (line) like it was a thread."
The harpoon soon started to pull out, so a second harpoon went in. Finally, a gunshot dispatched the fish, which measured 7 feet, 7 inches long. Four men pulling simultaneously barely got the fish's head onto the deck of the Lisa Michelle. The rest of the body followed.
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I miss Alaska...
Did he flounder around much?..............
I only clicked on this thread because of the word “dwarfs” in the title.
Now that's some Fishin'!
A guy I worked with once caught an 800 lb halibut, in Alaska waters. Beat my record by about 700 lbs.
I clicked here just for the halibut.
Halibut that ???
This one got him first Plaice.
He’s the Sole leader..............
Yes, I understand. I wish I was fishing for halibut out of Homer right now, but Valdez and Seward are both good.
That’s a helluva halibut. Seriously, catching one of those is on my bucket list.
Ate flounder almost every day when I lived in Va.
Should have said “once claimed he ...”. Fishermen have their own system of weights and measures.
We have them in The Gulf of Mexico, too. But ours now come already blackened!......
Something Smelt about his story.
When fishing for halibut it's important to keep a gun handy. You have to kill it before you bring it on board or it could tear the boat apart.
Are you confident of he wasn't telling a whopper?
Halibut are the largest of all the flatfishes. Some halibut exceed 400 pounds, including the 459 pound state record fish caught during 1996 in Unalaska Bay.
No this posting was just done for the halibut.
I’ve caught a lot of halibut out of Homer, but my biggest was only 75lbs. I’ve had several 50-65 pounders. Nothing to brag about, but still monsters compared to the fish I’ve caught in the lower 48.
We paid a woman to fillet our fish and ship them FedEx back home. The next morning, there was a story in the paper that a FedEx plane from Anchorage caught on fire landing in Newark. The crew had to climb out of the cockpit. Our plane went to LAX and we enjoyed halibut for about a month.
I bet his reel was in Turbot boost!............
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