So I'm just trolling along Bass fishing

[Van]

Out fishing for myself doing my bassin thing outside Boston harbor on Sunday.

One rod starts screaming but in the 1 second it took me to get to it the fish was gone. As I reeling it in to check the bait. My starboard rod starts a slooow bend. I thinking crap I got the bottom. But its pretty deep. So the boat goes into neutral and I grab the rod....

YUP its stuck alright. I am tugging and pulling and it feels like I am lifting something off the bottom. I'm thinking its an old gill net, pot line or something. Then I feel the shake. Its a fish???? WTF??? Maybe a bass caught up in some old junk?
But, I can barely bring it up. I get it half way or so and it sounds a second time. Finally its tired and coming up. At this point I just want to see what I've got. It does not feel like anything I've caught before. And its not.. I get a look at it and say to myself..."""Look at the size of that flounder""" 22 lb Halibut. Nasty teeth and one extremely slimy fish. Snapped some pics with ny cell on the deck and then went over to a buddies boat and he snapped some of me holding the beast up (coming soon).
Never would I even imagine catching this species around here (especially while liveling for bass). Plus it had to come up to take that bait it was not that near the bottom.

Like last year's Tresher shark its another strange catch on Karavi Charters.