Halibut surface feeding frenzy

[kaelc]

Cool Facebook reel

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=769914425311698

 

[trophywife]

so cool.. i got a 80lber once,, cut plugging at 30',, in 250' of water!!

 

[sam_n_leo]

That's amazing. Somewhere there must be a purist dreaming of a halibut on a dry fly, they need to go to THAT spot.

 

[Loghauler]

here fishy fishy

 

[chris73]

Gary Cooper showed the same some years ago up in Alaska.

 

[Eden Island]

We were anchored in 10' of water, eating steak dinner in an open boat, when my wife said "what's that finning in the shallows". We watched for a few seconds, as a fin was lifted over a rock. Then it turned and swam slowly along the bottom toward us -- a halibut 100+ pounds. Jan dropped a salmon rig about 6 feet down, and it was on! Unfortunately thru a kelp bed and into 100 feet of water. We followed, but it broke off in the kelp. The only time we've seen one that shallow - we keep hoping.