Barn Door Halibut Record

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Barn door halibut record. Pacific halibut is one of the most popular species for fishing in alaska halibut can live up to 55 years and can grow to be quite enormous when we say barn door halibut we mean it. Halibut can win tournaments. Seven and a half feet. The giant fish measured 76 inches and weighed 235 pounds.

Every summer and into fall sports fishermen from around the world head to alaska to try and pull in a barn door. The igfa world record is 496 lbs and there have been documented catches on commercial boats of 600 lbs. Randall s fish measured 75 inches and sanky s was 66 inches. Find us on the docks at 1300 4th ave seward ak 99664.

In most alaskan ports a 200 pluspound halibut would draw quite a crowd as it is hoisted onto the scale back at the docks. Stretched alongside them was a halibut 90 inches in length. That was a full 10 inches longer than the current lodge record fish landed just a month earlier. Goode joined the barn door club in what is arguably alaska s most fertile trophy halibut grounds the section of the inside passage between elfin cove and gustavus.

The number they got was off the chart that is stocked in qcl boats so they measured again to double check. To put it in perspective the record for the alaska king salmon is 126 pounds and a halibut chicken is nearly that and still growing. 35555 kenai spur hwy 196 soldotna ak 99669. And a 300 lb.

Their fish were cut and stored away.