Hunting & Fishing Halibut

[drglock]

Got to go visit my brother who just recently moved to Homer , Alaska. Nothing like getting to visit family and get out on the water and catch a few fish . He just bought a Hewes craft Sea Runner and I must say Hewes Crafts makes a heck of a nice boat. We never really got into any big ones but we did limit out each day and had a hell of a good time .

 

[Sendit6.5]

Very cool!


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[hunter-steve]

Always wanted to go for halibut. Thanks for sharing.

 

[knuckleballz]

Just got back from fishing the kenai. We did a charter
​​​​​out of Homer. Biggest halibut was 108 lbs. It was 83 inches. They said it was probably 20 years old. All of our over 28 inchers were between 50lb and the 108lb. We got most of our under 28 inchers also. I love halibut but don't care for that style of fishing. I enjoy casting for silver salmon and eating sockeye also.

 

[knuckleballz]

I got sick once on a halibut charter, but I go back every year and do it again. The smell of the halibut getting cut up is a mental trigger that turns my stomach every time

 

[drglock]

Just got back from fishing the kenai. We did a charter
​​​​​out of Homer. Biggest halibut was 108 lbs. It was 83 inches. They said it was probably 20 years old. All of our over 28 inchers were between 50lb and the 108lb. We got most of our under 28 inchers also. I love halibut but don't care for that style of fishing. I enjoy casting for silver salmon and eating sockeye also.

We caught almost all of our Halibut while jigging.

 

[kraigWY]

I use to take a 14 ft Jon boat with a 15 HP motor to Anchor Pt. (Near Homer) during the King Run. Anchor Pt is where Cook Inlet sweeps around from Homer to Anchorage. I would mooch for halibut and would catch both, Kings and Halibut just by drifting with the tied relatively close to shore. Always limited out. Didnt catch any of the huge ones but I wouldnt want them in that little boat anyway.

I went out on one charger in my life. It was out of Homer with my son. Everyone on that boat got skunked.

 

[drglock]

I use to take a 14 ft Jon boat with a 15 HP motor to Anchor Pt. (Near Homer) during the King Run. Anchor Pt is where Cook Inlet sweeps around from Homer to Anchorage. I would mooch for halibut and would catch both, Kings and Halibut just by drifting with the tied relatively close to shore. Always limited out. Didnt catch any of the huge ones but I wouldnt want them in that little boat anyway.

I went out on one charger in my life. It was out of Homer with my son. Everyone on that boat got skunked.

Anchor Pt is where my brother lives .

 

[DXT_Shooter]

I went halibut fishing in Cook Inlet and never been so seasick in my life...it was about the same size boat in your photo but it felt like we were in a 14’ Aluminum. The swells were like 4 feet we did get our limit and they were yummy ?.

I don’t know that I would go again unless I had a Dramamine drip ?

 

[DXT_Shooter]

Just went Halibut fishing again and wasn’t seasick so it was awesome. Went out of Seward AK

 

[kraigWY]

I spent 22 years in Alaska, finding out that the hunting is much better in Wyoming. Fishing is just as good except for salmon and halibut.

I got burned out on salmon, halibut is a different story. Some of the best fish there is in my opinion.

Homer is fun, I dont know how it is now, (I left there when I retired in '94). I had a small 20 ft jon boat, but most of the time, it worked well. We'd camp on the spit. I made some home made crab pots and set them out in the morning, (sometimes at night) then I'd go "mooching" for salmon and halibut. It was nothing to catch you're limet.

In the evening we'd check out the pots, and normal had a few. We'd build a fire on the beach, boil up the crab and dip them in butter laced with limon. Eat until we were nearly sick, pass out, and start again the next day.

I found the smaller halibet (< 80#s) were the best eating. As they get bigger they get ready to spone, the meat turns mushy and tasteless. I'm not aginst trophy fishing, a 2-300 pounder makes for great bragging, but the smaller are better eating. Plus you can eat them before they get freezer burned. It takes all day to eat a 100 plus. Fish. 60 pounders go faster and you can go back and get fresher fish just about any time of the year.

I think the camping on the beach (Spit) was actually more fun then the fishing. But then I'm the guy who spent 10 days moose hunting setting infront of the tent watching a beaver build his house. Never even loaded the rifle.

Everyone should try halibut fishing at least once.

Thanks for the story and photos, brings back memorires.

 

[45.308]

I am also not a fan of salmon due to everyone thinks it the preferred food. Grew up eating it as a staple, go to friends house, they offer salmon, go to another friends house, salmon, weekend after weekend,

Halibut is still good for fish, I am not a fish eater. Chickens around 50# are best eating, 100# is when they start to degrade in flavor.

Sea sick is easy out of Homer with rolling. I have fished on perfect flat glass water...once! Don't fish any more, fishing is not the mission its been in a decline and ruined for the most point.

I talked to a guy yesterday who escaped Wyoming to Alaska, I started laughing. While AK is better than 49 other states, it is not once it once was, not even close.


To all, drop me a line when you visit and I will let you buy me lunch!

 

[Deleted member 10043]

Looks like a blast. Thanks for sharing.

 

[kraigWY]

I talked to a guy yesterday who escaped Wyoming to Alaska, I started laughing. While AK is better than 49 other states, it is not once it once was, not even close.

I too escaped Wyoming for Alaska, but that was in 1972. Most of my 22 years living there I realized everything I went to Alaska for was better in Wyoming. Sure the duck/geese hunting and halibet/salmon fishing is better, but I'm more of a hunter.

In Alaska there are to many people hunting from the roads and not enough roads. When I left the rivers were getting the same way. Now its much much worse then when I left in '94. You have to be rich and hire a plane for diecent hunting.

In Wyoming you may have a harder time to get a moose tag but Elk, Deer, and Antelope is easy. I buy a lot less meat here then I did in Alaska. And thats pork and chicken. Plus you dont have to tramp through muskeg, inhaling a lung full of knats everytime you breath. Nor do you have to cover yourself with skeeter dope.

I came back in 1994, and I'll not move again.

 

[tcole75]

My brother and I someday plan to go to Alaska for a fishing trip but until that day I’ll keep dreaming

 

[sandwarrior]

Alaska was a great place to visit. I worked up there briefly in '96, out in Bethel. I left as all the good fishing was just starting. But, it served my purpose, as I got experience in aviation that I could take a lot of places. I went back and stayed on the Kenai river a while up on the other side from Soldotna. Did a bunch of salmon fishing and I have to agree, it's tasty for a little while. When it's a staple, not so much.

I personally loved the hunting and fishing in North Idaho. But same thing as a lot of places, you have to wade through the trust fund babies up there. Who have a whole 'nuther attitude about what we should be doing and where we can go up there.

 

[Olen_4504]

I went Halibut fishing out of Homer as well about 10 years ago. Different charter I think though. it was a blast! I got super sea sick. I grew up boating my whole early life, but something about being INSIDE the roomlike cabin on those rough waters messed me up. I had to stay out on the deck and stay away from the inside cabin part.