ratherbefishin
Petty Officer 1st Class
- Joined
- Aug 11, 2003
- Messages
- 240
every now and again somebody brings a halibut in the boat-and general mayhem breaks out.A big one can easily break a leg, smash up a boat, and there are old stories of fishermen lost at sea and the boat turns up with the bottom knocked out.Most guys hogtie them, or shoot them in the head[ not a good idea to do in the boat-but it;s been tried before!]My friend a while back had a big one on when he was jigging, anyway, they brought it up after an hour and a half, looked over and saw the head one side of the boat, the tail the other- and decided to cut the line[good choice!]the best ones are under 40 lb. anyway