Alaskan Halibut

[ryork]

The wife and I spent the last 12 days or so in Alaska. I did a halibut trip in Cooks Inlet one day while in the Kenai area. Caught a bunch of fish and slap wore me out! Was intrigued by the “tractor launch”. Basically a pulpwood skidder hooks up to your trailer, drags you in the ocean, a young lady rides the back of the thing out and unlocks everything, and off you go. Repeat the process upon return. Have about 40 lbs of halibut and cod filets waiting for us when we get home tomorrow. We actually flew from Anchorage to Nashville yesterday and are seeing our kids before heading out tomorrow.

 

[Cool Hand Luke]

Man, that is cool

Good eating for sure!

What a great trip!

 

[mizzippi jb]

That looks like an awesome trip!

 

[HuntinJake_23]

One of me and the Mrs. Bucket list trips for sure!!!

 

[Batjack]

Can't wait to see what goodies you come up with those in the Cafe... gonna go ahead and buy a replacement screen as I'll surely bite more than one hole in the one I've got.

 

[antharper]

Congrats on a trip of a lifetime !

 

[Browning Slayer]

Heck yeah man! What a trip!

 

[slow motion]

Looks like it was a fantastic trip brother. Love to do that one day.

 

[Gaswamp]

never was a fun fish for to catch but one of the most tastiest

 

[pjciii]

I was wondering if you share a percentage of your catch with the Captain or just monetarily tip them.

 

[ryork]

I was wondering if you share a percentage of your catch with the Captain or just monetarily tip them.

Nope just a tip in this case.

 

[ryork]

never was a fun fish for to catch but one of the most tastiest

The surroundings and company definitely made it fun. There were four guys from Montana, a father, son, and both grandfathers there for the young ones graduation gift. And another guy who lives in Alaska who somehow happened to know some folks I used to work with as we’re in the same general profession. I enjoyed catching them, but it was a little like work at times, was sore the next day.

 

[NCHillbilly]

Man, that is awesome, and something I have always wanted to do myself.

 

[smitty]

Headed there last week of july, hope to bring home some of those filets.

 

[the Lackster]

Man that's awesome dude!

 

[marshallknight]

Awesome trip! Thanks for sharing

 

[dirtnap]

We just got back yesterday from doing the same thing. Awesome trip

 

[ryork]

We just got back yesterday from doing the same thing. Awesome trip

Good deal! Where did you fish out of?

 

[dirtnap]

We went out of Ketchikan. We caught Halibut, Cod, Rockfish and some weird looking trash fish they called a Ratfish

 

[ryork]

We went out of Ketchikan. We caught Halibut, Cod, Rockfish and some weird looking trash fish they called a Ratfish

I was hoping to get a rockfish as well but didn’t. We had a few sharks and some ghoulish looking critter that I can’t remember the name of.