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  • Woman lands enormous halibut (335.7 pounds) on first-ever fishing trip

    08/16/2011 2:18:41 PM PDT · by NormsRevenge · 48 replies
    GrindTV.com ^ | 8/16/11 | Pete Thomas, GrindTV.com
    Annette Gutierrez embarked on her first-ever fishing trip recently out of Valdez, Alaska, and returned with a monstrous Pacific halibut weighing 335.7 pounds and measuring 88 inches from mouth to tail -- or nearly two feet taller than the 5-foot-6 angler. Chalk it up to beginner's luck, or Lady Luck, but Gutierrez, a New Mexico resident who works seasonally in Alaska, has joined the elite few to have landed a "barn door" halibut topping 300 pounds. "It was insane to get such a very big fish my first time," said Gutierrez, in an interview last week with the Fairbanks Daily...