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01-12-2010, 10:10 PM | #1 |
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Diving for Alaskan Halibut!!
Im bored at home, and something I always wondered is ,has anyone ever dove and speared alaskan halibut? I know they get up to a couple hundred pounds up their.
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01-12-2010, 10:18 PM | #2 |
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Re: Diving for Alaskan Halibut!!
Rumor has it that a guy that lurks on Spearboard from time to time shot a 160-180 lb. hali up in AK last year.
Someone even said there's a pic of him standing next to it floating around on the internet
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01-12-2010, 10:19 PM | #3 |
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Re: Diving for Alaskan Halibut!!
I've heard of that as well
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01-13-2010, 12:07 AM | #4 |
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Re: Diving for Alaskan Halibut!!
Go on youtube and look for it. I remember a diver sneak on a hundred pound Halibut. Here is the link.
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01-13-2010, 12:27 AM | #5 |
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Re: Diving for Alaskan Halibut!!
It can be done...probably have to dive up shallow off the mouth of a river when the salmon carcasses float down and the big halibut wait to eat them...I saw some kelp beds across from Homer in 60' that might have enough vis to spear one...Asked our halibut charter captain about it and he said some big ones lay up next to the kelp there in the Spring time...I would go to Kodiak Island to try it...many big fish off there and lots of salmon to wash down into the sea...some scuba divers tried it and got really spooked by the sheer size of the flatties where they were diving...said they wouldn't go down again...salmon sharks up there get pretty big and could mistake a diver for a meal...great whites also migrate up that far and come back down, crossing over to Hawaii...it would definately be a deadliest catch adventure....
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01-13-2010, 01:00 AM | #6 |
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Re: Diving for Alaskan Halibut!!
that video sucks...
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01-13-2010, 06:16 AM | #7 |
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Re: Diving for Alaskan Halibut!!
Check out this Alaskan Spearfishing Adventure Video. These cooks get on tanks and dive deep reefs for giant lings. Insane!
http://vimeo.com/2237428
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01-13-2010, 08:12 AM | #8 |
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Re: Diving for Alaskan Halibut!!
wow!!!!
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01-13-2010, 11:26 AM | #9 |
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Re: Diving for Alaskan Halibut!!
There are 20 foot tides in alaska so you would have to be deep diving to avoid the surge.
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01-13-2010, 12:07 PM | #10 |
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Re: Diving for Alaskan Halibut!!
There are a couple other places where the really big ones could be found shallow. I have seen the pics, and the fish were taken freediving. I talked to a captain in Ak. who my friends fish with annually. He swears if I go up, and jump in he will put me on the big flatties. Like Ocean 314 says though, the tides will dictate everything.
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01-13-2010, 12:17 PM | #11 |
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Re: Diving for Alaskan Halibut!!
Good golly miss molly !!!!!
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01-13-2010, 12:26 PM | #12 |
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Re: Diving for Alaskan Halibut!!
that was a rad show...thanks for posting
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01-14-2010, 08:07 PM | #13 |
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Re: Diving for Alaskan Halibut!!
Was that a Pacific halibut?
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01-14-2010, 08:17 PM | #14 |
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Re: Diving for Alaskan Halibut!!
There are a bunch of flatfish in the Pacific, and there are 3 halibut species. The Cortez halibut id a California halibut that is isolated by locale, and they are not as big as regular Ca. halibut. They range from Say Loreto to San Felipe. The Pacific halibut range is from Central Ca up to Alaska, over to Russia, a few down into Japan waters. They are the biggest halibut, reaching 300+ lb. They tend to live in deeper water. That fish shown was a Pacific halibut. More diamond shaped, the body is thicker, and that one looks to be about 80lb or so.
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