Got lucky. Buyer called me and said he needed 500 lbs fast and I told him I know a spot. Was hit or miss but they were there : )

I like looking in the stomachs too. Crab, rocks, octopus, clam necks, and fish are just a few of the things we've found.
This little dungy was in the belly of the small halibut behind my boy.

I ate my share of halibut when I was camped on the islands. We ate halibut, three meals a day for 21 days straight, took one day off and went back to eating fish. Two of us would eat a 50-51" fish in a week. You burn a lot of calories out there.

Not sure if I could do that:). Then again you guys were very hungry

Its almost as good as ling cod.

We had a good supply of canned and dry food, but the fish seemed better. With no freezer or refrigerator, we would eat on a fish until it was gone. They would keep a week in the creek in zip locks. I would fry enough fish in the evening for breakfast and lunch the next day. I was lucky to be there and enjoy the fish.

I have some halibut in the freezer from a trip last year. Does anybody have a favorite halibut recipe that they would like to share? Thanks.

I’m a fried fish kinda guy, particularly battered and deep fried. But while on the boat in Alaska, the captain’s wife made baked halibut. ( halibut was caught a few hours earlier ). I was skeptical, but it was the best fish dinner I ever had. Baking the halibut in sour cream and mayo.

https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/220210/baked-halibut-sitka/

Or poached in a little bit of water.

I would prefer black cod but halibut is second best

One of our favorite ways to eat them is chowdah. Grill up enough so that there are lots leftover, and my dear wife makes a delicious white chowder. My personal favorite.

Halibut lasagna, second only to deep fried

She ain't what she used to be. Get them while they last.

December 2018

"Alaska fishermen are bracing for more cuts to their halibut harvest next year.

The results of this year’s surveys showed that the Pacific stock from California to the Bering Sea continues to decline, and will likely result in lower catches.

“We estimate that the stock went down until around 2010 from historical highs in the late 1990s. It increased slightly over the subsequent five years and leveled out around 2015 or 2016, and has been decreasing slowly in spawning biomass (total weight of mature fish to catch) since then,” said Ian Stewart, lead stock assessment scientist with the International Pacific Halibut Commission at its interim meeting last week in Seattle."

Feb 2019

"The overall catch limit of 38.61 million pounds is slightly up from the 2018 quota — about 1.4 million pounds more. That’s up from 29.9 million pounds in 2016 and from 31.4 million pounds in 2017. Total removals in 2018, including bycatch in nontarget fisheries, added up to about 38.7 million pounds.

Last year, the commissioners from the U.S. and Canada could not come to an agreement about how to reduce halibut catches in Pacific waters and adjourned their meeting with no agreement. Each individual country handled its catch limits, as long as they were no higher than the 2017 limits the commissioners last agreed on. The commissioners noted multiple times that they needed to work together this year.

The increase in the overall catch limit follows a trend of the commission increasing the quotas, despite warnings from the IPHC researchers that the halibut surveys indicate that the stock is decreasing and reductions in the fishery levels are necessary for sustainability."

Thanks for the recipes, I appreciate it and look forward to trying them.

When we used to go to Canada for walleye fishing that’s what we did as the walleye was fresh and tasted better than frozen, I usually just fry it with some salt and pepper on it, if I want a coating it’s just a dusting of flour but that’s rare.

I hope they don't do there what they did here and fish themselves out of a living. I've long feared that.