Fishing

dux

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Buskin river?
Mostly fished off the roads,i don't remember all the names but i think we spent time on the American,liberty and anywhere we saw fish out it looked fishy.we did take a float plane out to fish the Uganic (spelling?)
We did really well with silvers on the water with a charter and of course halibut.we shipped 342lbs of halibut and salmon home! (i remeber well,it was about $900 for shipping!!)
 

GreatwhiteNorth

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Mostly fished off the roads,i don't remember all the names but i think we spent time on the American,liberty and anywhere we saw fish out it looked fishy.we did take a float plane out to fish the Uganic (spelling?)
We did really well with silvers on the water with a charter and of course halibut.we shipped 342lbs of halibut and salmon home! (i remeber well,it was about $900 for shipping!!)
It is expensive to ship overnight here, but you just can't get the quality of fish in the supermarket.
I'll throw mine up against publix or Sams's any day.
 

StevieBevie

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Stripers, when I was thirteen I caught a 42 pounder in the Ware River Rhode Island casting a plug in to a few feet of water....Bluefish, Tataug, flounder, cod, fluke, weakfish/squeteague, mackeral large and smallmouth bass, perch Chinook salmon, catfish, lake, brook rainbow and brown trout, mahi mahi, albacore, and a few sailfish...
 

GreatwhiteNorth

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Saw these guys & gals while transiting from one Halibut spot to another last year.
I have no idea how many there were, possibly a thousand or more - they were congregated around that small island in the middle of the strait & the current was ripping.

Also, they look cute, but an adult male sea otter can reach 5' plus and they have a wicked set of choppers!

You do not mess with them.

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dux

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Saw these guys & gals while transiting from one Halibut spot to another last year.
I have no idea how many there were, possibly a thousand or more - they were congregated around that small island in the middle of the strait & the current was ripping.

Also, they look cute, but an adult male sea otter can reach 5' plus and they have a wicked set of choppers!

You do not mess with them.

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They're cute as hell for a 100lb rodent..seemed as long as the boat is moving they stay up on top but when you slow down for a picture down they go!!
 

needsomebeans

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Man I envy those of you that are out fishing.. I love to do some fishing but due to a injury I got I havent been able to hit the water since last September. Seriously need a day away at the lake right about now too.
Here's to a speedy and full recovery. Dr has been wanting to hack on my back for a minute now but I manage. Fishing is my release and I'll be sure to wet a line for you on my next trip friend.
 

dux

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Man I envy those of you that are out fishing.. I love to do some fishing but due to a injury I got I havent been able to hit the water since last September. Seriously need a day away at the lake right about now too.
My boat has been in the shop for 4 weeks! That's 4 weeks of no fishing for me.I'm starting to get a little antsy..
30 years of running my favorite river and i finally crushed a log floating just under the surface=destroyed lower unit:wall:
 

evergreengardener

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My boat has been in the shop for 4 weeks! That's 4 weeks of no fishing for me.I'm starting to get a little antsy..
30 years of running my favorite river and i finally crushed a log floating just under the surface=destroyed lower unit:wall:
Yea man I was in a auto wreck last year tore me up pretty bad haven't been fishing in almost a year now it's horrible and I was that guy that went for a hour before work 3 days a week and every weekend and any other time I could get away
 

GreatwhiteNorth

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So I went fishing this weekend. :wink:

J/K, but we call these "Neighbor Fish" as the flesh is too coarse to be very palatable so we gift it to the neighbors when you bring one in over 120 lbs or so.
Personally I let them all go over 100 as the big ones are always female & this girl could easily drop close to a million eggs in a single season.


Alaska fishermen snag nearly 400-pound halibut



PETERSBURG, Alaska — It wasn't a record breaker, but it was still a helluva halibut.

Petersburg radio station KFSK reports (http://bit.ly/2b8JfBE) that fishermen Brian Mattson and Doug Corl hauled in the catch of a lifetime Sunday with a 396-pound halibut in southeast Alaska. The fish was nearly 8 feet long.

They used a winch to bring the fish up onto their vessel, the Day Spring, and Mattson says it "just kept coming and coming, and then we knew it was big."

A large crowd came down to the dock to see the fish when they delivered the halibut for processing at Petersburg Fisheries Inc. Even Levy Boiter with the International Pacific Halibut Commission went to get a gander.

Boiter says, "This is definitely not the average fish."

The record catch came in 1996 when Jack Tragis brought in a 459-pound halibut in Dutch Harbor, Alaska.
 

evergreengardener

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So I went fishing this weekend. :wink:

J/K, but we call these "Neighbor Fish" as the flesh is too coarse to be very palatable so we gift it to the neighbors when you bring one in over 120 lbs or so.
Personally I let them all go over 100 as the big ones are always female & this girl could easily drop close to a million eggs in a single season.


Alaska fishermen snag nearly 400-pound halibut



PETERSBURG, Alaska — It wasn't a record breaker, but it was still a helluva halibut.

Petersburg radio station KFSK reports (http://bit.ly/2b8JfBE) that fishermen Brian Mattson and Doug Corl hauled in the catch of a lifetime Sunday with a 396-pound halibut in southeast Alaska. The fish was nearly 8 feet long.

They used a winch to bring the fish up onto their vessel, the Day Spring, and Mattson says it "just kept coming and coming, and then we knew it was big."

A large crowd came down to the dock to see the fish when they delivered the halibut for processing at Petersburg Fisheries Inc. Even Levy Boiter with the International Pacific Halibut Commission went to get a gander.

Boiter says, "This is definitely not the average fish."

The record catch came in 1996 when Jack Tragis brought in a 459-pound halibut in Dutch Harbor, Alaska.
That thing is huge man never fished anything over like 40 to 50 lbs myself but that's the biggest you'll get in my area and only things getting big like that are muskie walleye and some pike
 
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