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A picture of a picture I found that I had. It’s not a pike but could eat the poodle in question. Nice fish K.G. And some nice pike. Wow! What is the approximate weight for that? An acquaintance told me that in the early '80s the boat he worked on was tied up at a fish plant at Kodiak; while the boss was inside conducting business they lowered a net below the gurry chute. When pulled up they had a halibut that weighed roughly 500 pounds. I suppose it's worth noting we were enjoying a few beers when he told me this.
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Some of them have an odd genetic if you will. This is the second longest I’ve had a client boat, beyond the 50” mark. This fish was a mid September catch and as seen I don’t think it will ever get great girth. Osky
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This one was 324 lbs and the first was bigger. WAG was about 360 lbs
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Again, WOW! That angler doesn't need to buy lotto tickets, this is much better bragging rights.
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I'm still LMAO about the 60 pound Poodle....that's going to be tuff to beat!
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I'm still LMAO about the 60 pound Poodle....that's going to be tuff to beat!
LOL Ya but both of these Alaska pike could swallow the poodle whole. We weighed the second one between two scales and I wish we were smart enough too have tied the first one mouth to tail and weighed it on one scale as the scale winch wouldn’t go high enough to get it off the deck so we removed the scales. The book weight was just over 400 lbs which we know is bs hence the WAG. I’m 5’11 1/2 for reference and no photo trickery.
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Whoops I didn’t post the picture of it. Vertical.
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A picture of a picture I found that I had. It’s not a pike but could eat the poodle in question. Nice fish K.G. And some nice pike. Being a halibut fisherman, I never understood why some people need to kill giant Hen Halibut and kill their abilities to produce the millions of eggs they do. Hopefully, that is a thing of the past.
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I hated to kill a big one but if you couldn’t talk a customer into releasing it and I cut it loose I would have been fired on the spot.
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Some of them have an odd genetic if you will. This is the second longest I’ve had a client boat, beyond the 50” mark. This fish was a mid September catch and as seen I don’t think it will ever get great girth. Osky Big head but as you said, it lacks girth. There is a penis joke hidden in there somewhere.
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[quote=Salmonella]My son and I have caught some toothy Northern N/A fish.
Probably some records if you had longer arms. It's not a proper 24HCF fishing thread until Sal shows up and busts out a few pics of he and his kid long-arming the shyt out of something. LMAO! I was thinking the same thing. They’ve sure got the long-arming down to an “art form”. 🤪 My fishing pictures pale in comparison to my dik pics.🤣 I've never caught a fish over 18".
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A picture of a picture I found that I had. It’s not a pike but could eat the poodle in question. Nice fish K.G. And some nice pike. Being a halibut fisherman, I never understood why some people need to kill giant Hen Halibut and kill their abilities to produce the millions of eggs they do. Hopefully, that is a thing of the past. That pisses me off too....90% of the big ones are females, aka egg barges. Not to mention they taste like [bleep]
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AK just so you know all of the halibut I keep for myself were between 40 and 60 pounds. I didn’t even like fishing for the damn things. As far as I’m concerned they’re the catfish of the sea and I would rather eat a black sea bass or lingcod any day. It went with the job.
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On one charter, I caught a 70 and a 109. Noticable difference in quality. I'll take 2 50's over one 100 any day. Won't kick a 100 overboard tho. . As to that 60 lb pike, I bet it could chew a chunk off a 2,000 # moose.....
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40” to 50” halibut are the best eating.
Smaller fish don’t have the yield.
Bigger fish are wormy.
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AK just so you know all of the halibut I keep for myself were between 40 and 60 pounds. I didn’t even like fishing for the damn things. As far as I’m concerned they’re the catfish of the sea and I would rather eat a black sea bass or lingcod any day. It went with the job. You're smart. same thing with Ling cod, I never keep anything over 15 pounds.
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A picture of a picture I found that I had. It’s not a pike but could eat the poodle in question. Nice fish K.G. And some nice pike. Dayum! That’s a huge one.
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I once caught an 8 1/2 LB large mouth bass. Went to take the hook out, and I could see a crappie tail that had not been fully swallowed.
I took the hook out and released the fish. So you would have to subtract the crappie weight off, the fish weight to be accurate.
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40” to 50” halibut are the best eating.
Smaller fish don’t have the yield.
Bigger fish are wormy.
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