Barn Door Halibut Record

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.

Barn door halibut record.

Trophy sizes start at 200 lbs. Tragis also holds the. The number they got was off the chart that is stocked in qcl boats so they measured again to double check. Stretched alongside them was a halibut 90 inches in length.

The giant fish measured 76 inches and weighed 235 pounds. 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. According to the international game fish assn the all tackle world record is a 459 pound pacific halibut caught by jack tragis off dutch harbor alaska in june 1996.

Halibut can win tournaments. 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. Seven and a half feet. That was a full 10 inches longer than the current lodge record fish landed just a month earlier.

Photo by herschel sundow randall charlie at left and sanky ulak of scammon bay pulled up these barndoor sized halibut while deep sea fishing 13 miles from the end of the askinuk mountains. The igfa world record is 496 lbs and there have been documented catches on commercial boats of 600 lbs. And a 300 lb. Their fish were cut and stored away.

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.