BIGGEST ALASKA HALIBUT EVER CAUGHT ON UNDERWATER CAMERA!
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- On the chum-bag camera we found a massive Pacific Halibut taking selfies! She rolled in to check out our chum, smelling the sweet scent of herring and salmon carcasses, and then tried snacking on one of our jigs. Measuring in at six foot nine inches, she weighed approximately 290lbs, or 131.5 Kg, and is the biggest verified halibut ever filmed in the wild.
These huge fish are native to the Northern Pacific ocean, ranging from the Bering Sea to California, but with the most and biggest fish located in Alaska and Canada. They migrate out deep to the continental shelf to spawn in the dead of winter, and then head to shallower waters to feed throughout summer.
Here in Northern Kodiak Island, we fish in the Shelikof Strait, known as the Halibut Highway, because of the huge numbers of Halibut that pass through here to their feeding grounds in the rest of Alaska.
These are my favorite fish to fish for, simply because you never know what you might hook!
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Such an amazing fish and so stoked you not only got to encounter this incredible beast, but got video of it and chose to release it. Respect due!
Couldn't agree more!
Respect that you released it
Thank you!
Thank you for releasing her. Those big females are the future to maintaining good populations fir the future.
By the time they get that size, they have already fulfilled their reproductive duty several times over. Those fish should be harvested before they die of natural causes and rot on the ocean floor for crabs to pick at....
Hug a tree , and kiss a bunny , There are millions of egg layers , I shoot does , because they are tastier , and more tender , boo , hoo , hoo!
@@kennethmcdonald5278 😭😭😭
@@kennethmcdonald5278 you don’t get do you. You’re all about consumerism and don’t care cause probably going to die soon. Our children not allowed to eat the delicious food we got? Greed with you. The animal inside me wants to eat it but I wouldn’t kill it just cause it’s for a better future.
@@kennethmcdonald5278 😂😂
Man, that fish had me feeling uncomfortable. Anyone else keep tilting their head to try and get the Halibut to swim correctly
Thanks for releasing that beautiful Barn Door Halibut!
Glad to know you release her back to the water!
Awesome fish! Thanks for sharing!
She’s a beauty and lived long enough to deserve a chance to live her life to the end. You guys are awesome! Liked & share and now following
Thank you so much! I really appreciate that!
So cool actually seeing it swim under water, what a great video… thank you!!
Thanks for watching! I was soooo stoked watching the footage afterwards!
She is a behemoth. Kudos for your respect of such a magnificent creature.
Thank you! Hopefully she lasts a few more years; she was a great fish!
She's beautiful. Thanks for releasing her
Beautiful fish, and I'm glad you let her go so she could keep spawning. I fish out of Homer, and would like to create a similar camera setup. Is your chum bag and GoPro on a downrigger, or a separate rod? How did you rig the camera to the line?
For sure! Big ones are best in the ocean! I had the Gopro attached to a wood L shape, with the camera on the upright, the weights attached to the bottom to make it float upright, and the chum bag off the end of the L. It was all attached to a rope I just pulled up manually.
@@AlaskaWhaleanddronetours Thanks for the info!
Thanks for sharing. Amazing fish.
Thanks for watching!
Nice catch and great release. Well done, guys.👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
Thank you!
Very cool video!
Thank you very much!
Smoked halibut on a buttered bread slice - best thing imaginable.
It’s much better with a small halibut though, these big ones don’t taste as good or have as good of a texture!
right on Guys, the Big Girls go back, what a beautiful day and terrific photography
Thank you sir, that's the best for the fishery and for the dinner table!
So glad you released it. Those big fat females produce way way way more offspring than the smaller young ones. Research has shown that protected areas from fishing allow big rockfish and bottom fish to attain the large sizes needed to produce lots of offspring that seed the other locations with catchable fish.
Absolutely why we released it!
Respect on that release 💪
Awesome!
Awesome job guys!
Thank you!
This is a bucket list fish of mine ! Great to see C&R of these fish
You should!
Great capture and release chaps
Thank you!
Good job! What a fish. Had one break 125lb stainless wire on a old bamboo rod with a big knucklebuster that had been In service for many decades and had mastered many 100lb flatties.
First it broke the pole in half and it took two of us about 20 minutes to get it off bottom. And with a huge run the reel locked and I'm still amazed we kept hold of the pole.
Couple weeks later in the paper was a article about a 159lb butt caught with 75 yards, spreader and a 4lb ball.
Got crazy pictures of this classic tug of war ( good time's ehh?!). Anyways glad you released it. As you I'm sure are aware that all those biggies are female and regardless they have grainy meat and usually worms
Those are the best stories! I know a guy who hooked into one that pulled his boat around for three hours before it broke off. And he was an Alaskan who has boated plenty of 200lb+ fish, so that must have been a MONSTER.
Halibut was the most delicious fish I have ever tasted, it was done in batter served with chips (french fries) and a pickled onion, used to be popular in the UK, I was on the ferry going over to Ireland so I couldn't try it again to see if it really is that delicious or if that was just a particular tasty fish.
Thank you for letting her go.
That’s so awesome! Congratulations on capturing video of my favorite fish ever. Gotta Love Alaska. #Boutdoorsalaska
Glad you enjoyed it!
very good video
That's a pretty big Halibet harry
The way they move is so strange, kind of like a flatworm.
Nice halibut, I just caught a halibut on my channel like a while ago
We had a guest at The Highliner Lodge in Pelican pull up a 465 pounder in 2010!!!
The cheeks were the size of basket balls.
That's a huge fish!
Wow. What a beast. And so glad she was released. Kudos to all.
Thank you!
I worked at a couple of fishing lodges on the northern coast of BC. I heard some of the fishing guides talk about stories of 1500lb halibut. Don’t know how realistic that is - but I’ve seen some bizarre stuff pulled up from down deep.
I remember going on shrimp boat fishing trips. The main question I had when we were culling bycatch was WHAat, the F!, Is that! I even got shocked one-time buy something called a skate. They told me it was a Mexican flounder. Took 30 years to find out what the hell that was.
I'm sure 100 years or so ago when they weren't being targeted nearly as much there could have definitely been some massive outliers.
True
I went to live on bc island..sooke
People were laughing at my 30poumd fishing rod...
When i asked why.
They told me up to almost a ton that fish can be..
And we had some in the sooke bay
Such a beautifull place...
I've worked on charter boats all my life, and while I haven't personally had any monster encounters, I know people who have. I know a guy who has personally landed over a dozen halibut over 250lbs, (Grew up in Alaska) who hooked into SOMETHING in Icy Strait Alaska.
A 200lb fish normally takes him 20ish minutes to land, depending on depth.
This fish fought him for OVER THREE HOURS.
He could see it coming up on the depth-sounder, and the way it was swimming resembled a huge halibut, but he never got it to the top. His girlfriend was driving the boat as they followed and fought this fish, but she had a problem she needed help with, he turned a hair, and his rod slipped out of his exhausted hands and went over. Gone. Fish hadn't even gotten tired yet.
Good on ya and the Halibut...
Thank you!
The like I give is due to you released her. Respect the life 🙏
Much appreciated!
holy shit. Amazing.
hmmm you took close up of her and where are they?
Living in the hills of E. Tennessee I don't know if I could have released this nice fish, especially considering how much I love to eat fish. Well done guys.
Much appreciated!
you can rest easy knowing that the bigger ones taste much worse than the smaller ones
They are a strange looking fish.......and amazing on the table.
Absolutely, there's so much about them that's odd!
Way to go!
Thank you!
As much as i love to eat Halibut , that one would of been hard for me to release, but i do most of my Halibut fishing at Costco.
@@kevincrain7499 it helps that there’s lots of smaller, tastier ones out there!!
Amazing fish and also how loud the boat is!?
Thank you! Best halibut I’ve ever seen myself. It’s weird, we were actually anchored and our engine was off, but there were other boats passing by. The water was pretty shallow, only about 45 feet deep, so that’s probably why it’s easy to hear.
That’s a big ass flounder!!!
Yep, quite the chonk!
I caught 8k pounds of halibut in 24 hours out of Seward this is the finest eating fish on this plateau we live on.
Exceptional
It's awesome when they're on fire!
Man I love fried halibut but one that size needs to be release to relish in its beauty. Your a good man!
I totally agree, and thank you!
Barn door, as they say!!! 👀💪💯🇺🇸😎
That she was!
Such a strange but tasty fish
The thrill of the catch. And release her back great video
It was a most excellent day!
Glad you released her a true sportsman
Thanks, I appreciate it!
I was worried you were going to kill it, but im glad to hear the beauty's safe and growing🙏
Not gonna flounder around or be shellfish or crabby. I'm just here for the halibut
Was that pun on Porpoise or just a Fluke?
guys. I didn't think it was crappie.
The 'current price' of Halibut fillets here in the Portland area is $25 per pound. _Almost makes a guy want to book a charter!_
Lol, right? The big ones don't taste very good though, but there's lots more little ones to go around!
What kind of camera are you using?
GoPro Hero 8!
One of the VERY best tasting fish in the world
Yessir!
My dad hooked into a 220lb halibut when went to Homer Alaska about 15 years ago and we kept that big butt! The deckhand shot it with this bang stick that had .44 magnum bullets in it and it took like 3 shots to kill it! Best halibut we ever eaten! It was a great battle to took over 45minutes to land it would come up see the boat and go back down 250 feet lol we also caught some monster dragon sized ling cods to 65lbs such a bad ass fish a king cod is! I need to go back to Alaska and fish the kenai and Seward or homer again.
The fishing up here can be pretty epic! I love days when the water is flat, and I have the time and gas to get out past the regular fishing holes, out into the waters that never get hit, and go monster hunting.
Returning her gives your channel many KUDO'S
I hope so, I need more subscribers!
Class of you to let her go. What a specimen!
Thanks! She was a beaut! Hopefully she's still swimming and making little 'buts!
We knew how big she was because she brought her own scales.🤣
LOL
great catch and good of you to not kill such a nice fish
Yes, I've seen more than 5 times someone with a gaff who insisted on gaffing every fish no matter how small (A 14" mackerel, an 18" salmon for example) and I'm insisting let me net it.
Awesome, thanks for releasing the beautiful girl.
You're welcome!
I'll have seen 304 lbs halibut at Saint Paul Alaska by local fishermen.
happy to hear she will live to fight another day
Just need a swimming potato and dinners ready
Lol yep!
Only 290 lbs ? That's a baby considering they been know to get upwards of 700 lbs in deep waters off Virginia Beach
Or alot of future babies. I prefer babies over fish and chips
Great catch and release, something you'd don't see every day 😎
Biggest Halibut of the season out of Larson Bay!
Largest caught was over 1400 pounds in the 1890s. Caught commercially, not a sport fishing record.
Yep, freakishly huge fish. They catch them bigger than this one every year, this is just the largest verified halibut that has been filmed swimming around freely in the ocean.
Halibut 😚🫓
Why use the same tune as amagansett press 🤔
Thanks for her safe release.
:)
We’re you filming for the halibut? Lol
Yes I was trying to! I put that camera down on the bottom over a hundred times during the last season, and while I've got footage of dozens of small halibut and other fish, this is the only giant one I was fortunate enough to film.
Why didn't you show pics of it on board?
Because the only way I would DARE to bring a fish that powerful and tough on board is if it was 100% dead! We never brought it on board, just reached over the side, measured it, and released it right in the water.
I also hope you use circle hooks and not tripple prong hooks they tripple cause too much damage!
This exact fish was caught on a huge single-hook jig, and hooked neatly through the mouth, but we use the circle hooks most of the time for that exact reason. Never trebles though! There's plenty of fish out there, and you're absolutely right they cause a lot of damage on hungry fish.
why couldnt we see pics of her/
Because we didn't kill her and lift her out of the water. The boat we were on, the only way to get her on board would have been to drag her up over the side, and the only way to do that with a fish that strong that weighed that much, would have been to kill her. I got the one picture, but my job was getting her measured and unhooked, and the other people took the pics of her in the water, and then never sent them to me. 😕
When they get that big they end up being chalky in the meat! Commerical fished halibut from the 90s to present day! Along with every other species on the BC Coast! Do they have a slot limit in Alaska like we have here in BC? We have it for sport fishing but not commerical so its a joke!
Yep, and there's a lot of big-fish genetics that we want to keep going as well, making her more valuable as a breeder! It depends on which part of Alaska; some places its a slot limit, other places it's any one or two halibut.
So where are the photos?
I didn’t take her out of the water, so the photo of her on the surface is all ya get.
Nice fish but its not the biggest i personally have seen fish pushing 390lbs and thats still not the biggest.
@@toddbaumann3980 but did you catch it on an underwater camera? This is the biggest halibut ever filmed free-swimming in its environment, without being hooked. (Yet)
I don't think I believe that fish was boated alive for measurements and pics. Nobody in their right mind is boating a halibut that size alive, that's how people get seriously injured and occasionally killed by them
Absolutely, we did not bring her on board for measuring as that would have been extremely dangerous for us. Also would have been very harmful for the fish. There was a strong current that held her still, just under the surface and made her easy to measure without bringing her on board. The release was the hardest and most dangerous part; she shook her head when I tried to get the jig out and it almost got me.
They were bored so they made this video just for the halibut…
Pretty much! Lol
The 'big fish dont taste good thing' is BS with Halibut; big or small they all taste tender and delicious. You guys can throw yours back if you want. I only throw back the small ones (under 50lb) and keep the big ones, theres no shortage of Halibut in Alaska.
I guess it's a matter of opinion! I know people who like their steak rare, and some who like it well done. I personally like them in the 35-60# class the best, but that's just me.
It's not the biggest by weight though. They can get heavier than that.
Yep, they get quite a bit larger. This is just the biggest one filmed swimming around freely in the wild!
Yea funny the photos were not shown 🤔
The clients took the pics, I had to handle the fish. Measuring a cranky halibut like her isn't an easy task!
Back in the mid 80’s I worked with a guy that went fishing in Alaska and pulled in a halibut that covered the fishing deck of the boat”stern” he said it weighed over 400# and that the trip ended for the day because they filled all the coolers with filets
They're such amazing fish! I hope I find one that size someday!
Tastie
Flat fish are so strange, and tasty. 🤓
SO strange. And SO tasty!!!
That's a baby making machine. Glad you is free to make more babies.
Fingers crossed she makes a TON of them!
Keep those big mommas making babies. Well done!
1st commercial or subsistance fisherman that hooks that fish
( Which is most of the fish caught ) and she will be eaten ... Just a reality ... She's gotten that big , maybe she will slip by
Most of the pounds of halibut removed every year are actually caught as bycatch in the Pollock fishery. :(
Yeah, there's a good chance that she'll be caught, but we had plenty of halibut that day, and there's a chance she'll breed a couple more times, so I think it was worth it.
@@AlaskaWhaleanddronetours Totally agree
We were up there in Southeast for 8 yrs
I bought a boat and chartered my last 4 years there , turned loose the big girls as a rule ... Mostly ate fish between 40 and 80 lbs
@@frankbyrd6726 Those are the best! Big enough to have a lot of meat, small enough to taste amazing!
She’s so big the meat wouldn’t be that great anyways. The buffer the fish the older and the mushier and gamier the filets become
Looks delicious!
She probably would have been pretty good, but the other smaller ones we caught and kept that day were EXCELLENT!
If it's a long fight maybe the fish died later. I don't think it's good to hook it.
@@oraz. it wasn’t a long fight for the halibut, she mostly just rode the current and felt like a boot. She didn’t even have to fight, just let her weight do the work with the current. Also halibut hooked on a circle hook have a 95% survival rate, and she was hooked in a very good spot that caused minimal distress to her. We also never lifted her out of the water, so I’m 100% certain she was fine!
@@AlaskaWhaleanddronetours ok
You’re not Chinese then?
Fake, u didnt catch a halibut this Big with small rods like that🤔👎
I've eaten big halibut, not too tasty...take pictures and release her..
That’s exactly what we did!
Caught? Verified? total BS title.
Biggest Alaska Halibut ever caught on FILM. You show me a video of a larger halibut swimming around underwater that's not hooked, and I'll change the title.
Great job releasing the big breeder females back to do there job
Thanks! I think they're more valuable out there than in a freezer!
you released it?? so after going thru all that and putting the fish thru all that you didnt have it for dinner??? why bother in the first place? I eat what i catch...i dont freeze anything. Guess everybody in alaska is full..not a hungry kid in site?
Fiiish
Biiig
Catching a fish that is big enough to keep and release it? I'll never understand that. 👎
Big fish like that are the main spawners, that will help keep the fishery alive for the future! They also taste like wood, and we were catching lots of 25-30lb fish that taste amazing that we would rather keep.
Why kill something that has value alive but none dead?
@@AlaskaWhaleanddronetours Animals are no toys. Catching the fish is stressful and cruel for the fish. Catch and eat them or let them alone. I am a fisher, too.