Good job on the hali. You gotta crawl before you walk!!!!
A little advise.............When measuring hali's try your best to measure them on a flat surface and if possible put the tape measure under the hali's body. A 23" legal hali can be a 21 illegal hali when the DFG measures it.
Damn it I thought it was 24 inches so I released all 3 of them I could have had fresh halibut for dinner