well I'm back from Alaska.. What a beautiful place it is... All I coud say to people today was imagine putting Narragansett bay inside the Rocky Mountians and you'd get something like Alaska..
Halibut fishing was pretty interesting. The best way to discribe it is to cross fluke fishing techniques with shark fishing tackle. We were using your standard heavy boat poles with a large Penn Senator reel loaded up with dacron braid.. and get this 32 oz cannon ball sinkers hooked up to rigs that consisted of a tube with a large ocotopus skirt and a 14/0 circle hook. On the hook was a octopus tentacle, a herring, and a halibut belly strip.
We fished a plateau in the Icey Straights (about half way between Jeneau and Sitka) in 350 feet of water.. It took about a minute to get the gear on the bottom and about 5 to 10 to crank it up after we completed a drift. Just cranking up the grear without a fish was distructive on my body and After a few days of recovery all my muscles on my back and ribs are torn from jigging and reeling..
my Bro in Law and I caught 4 halibut all were 20-25 lbs each and IT was a trip I will never forget
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heres some pics for bragging rights
