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Originally Posted by yakrider
Jim Day farmed a fish? 
NO WAY!!!!!! |
With documentation
Andy sent me a pic, and to be honest the fish might of been a little bigger the thirty.
The deal is it's hanging straight up and down so all you can see in the pic is just the head in the water.
It wasn't hooked well, just in the skin on the outside of the head and since she was hanging straight up and down I figured I had two choices either go around and try and stick her in the top of the head at eye level where she'd see the gaff coming or underneath through the gill plate where she couldn't see it but I'd have to put it through all that bone.
I decide to blind-side her from underneath and I really laid the wood to it but the gaff just glanced off the gill plate and when she took off the hook pulled.
Nice fish, biggest halibut I've seen in years, if the gaff had stuck it would of been a whole different kinda day for me
All good though. It's not like you see fish like that all the time, just seeing it was enough to get me going
Jim