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I hear ya. Little ones are much tastier tho . . .

My best so far ,Didnt weigh or measure it , just ate it Im 6'4" 235lb for reference. It was a easy ride up until it saw daylight.

Nice 'but!


I took the pic down. Didn't want any hard feelings as many well meaning people don't understand the politics of halibut, big halibut, and charters.

Don't blame you Calvin , butt-hurt is easy to come by in the outdoor business world Even happens between friends unfortunately.

That is what all you guys that can't catch a decent halibut always say!

Give me the great big soakers! Smoked, the texture is like ham.

The little halibut cannot compete with truly good fish and the big ones smoked are exceptional.

Oh we don't mind big ones , just hard to come by up here .

Not big by Alaska standards but this was a rodeo for a couple of DIY Okies fishing POW. We were just getting used to the 30-40 pounders.

Nice. Want to catch on pretty bad ourselves, just not quite enough spare time to make that work...

Been busy! Fishing is pretty dang good. Lots and lots of 10lb cohos showing up, if you know where to find them! Halibut is still really good. Lots of bigger lingcod around. Six more guide trips and then I take off for 3 weeks on the Glory to get as many cohos as I can. Then it's hunting season till it's fishing season!

Hope everybody is loading up!

Coffman? Too bad about that Neck Lake coho run. We had about a 4 day lull on this side (not to bad), but it picked right up. I think we are getting either Neets Bay or Stikine cohos right now on the outside. Still a lot of fish out there too that haven't showed yet for the local hatchery run.

What happened to the Neck lake run? Went up last year on a work trip to the property and finished up early so went out for a few hours and cooned'em. Fishing old school (no riggers) and it was on fire for bigger coho.

Edited to add....nice fish guys. Looks like someone might have been fishing with Gooch. Great guy, great cook!

They didn't show this year. I think 1k showed up or something like that. Warm water has stuff all goofed up.

SSRAA cost recovery info

The return to Neck Lake was pretty much a bust this year, lowest on record. Neets is doing ok but the average size is quite a bit lower which is effecting our cost recovery. I doubt there will be any openers inside this year. We have seen a few coho popping up inside the bay but the numbers are still pretty low. The halibut fishing was hot for about two weeks but it has slowed down lately. I am probably going to go out and chase some fish tomorrow, been trying for deer but they are still up really high. Higher than I want to go after them ;-)

Took the family out yesterday morning for a couple of hours. I didn't get to fish much as I was busy putting fresh eggs on and untangling lines. Didn't matter as it's more fun watching them. They lost a lot and laughed a lot. Doesn't get much better to me.

Precious photos those are!!

dandy silvers there!...great pics!

Thanks for the response. The "blob" had a profound affect on Silvers down here. Last year we caught a ton but not one was over 5#. They were skinny little snakes. That Neck lake fishery is a cool opportunity and it produces some nice fish.

What are the usual returns for that run?

Hard not to love kids tusslin' with hooknose silvers....

Check out the link I posted. Actual numbers.

Thanks Hank. I must have missed your post the first time. Duh.