Fisherman and adventurer Jeremy Wade travels to Alaska in hopes of catching pacific fish such as the halibut. Subscribe to Discovery UK for more great clips: ru-vid.com_c... Follow Discovery UK on Twitter: / discoveryuk
man i almost want jeremy to make a seprate YT channel where he just goes around and catches other random fish. it doesnt even have to be like a river monsters kind of show, just a chill fishing show whith the man himself jeremy. id hella watch that!
Me too! He is a fantastic presenter. I'd love as well to learn some angling tips from him. Dude has caught everything under the sun, he probably has some interesting methods to share.
We caught halibut over 100 lbs in the '60s. It was a regular thing. My uncle in the coast guard claimed to have caught a 150 pounder, but he drank a lot and then ate the evidence!!
@@nathanwilliams2152 yea thats right... their flesh isnt as nice and because they live so long to be as big as they get they get too much "waste" from the ocean in the blood and all that... the perfect halibut size to eat is about 10kg-40/50kg ish
He probably had a better hit on the golden real but it wasn’t as big as the second so they made it seem like that smaller one (bigger hit) was like the bigger fish. Just makes it more exciting for viewers.
I used to commercial fish for Halibut. Believe it or not, that is not that big for a Halibut. I think the biggest one ever caught with a pole was right over 400 lbs. I can't imagine that epic battle but, I've seen the pictures. Just working with them to get them cleaned is an epic workout. I miss having fresh Halibut on my dinner table. There is nothing quite like pulling fish out of the ocean, immediately cleaning them, and putting them on to cook. Delicious!
I was in Alaska fishing off a smaller island by Ketchikan, one of the locals took us out to fish for halibut, and my uncle caught one over 6ft. When we got it back to the docks, my dad and uncle had me lay down next to it(I was 13 at the time). It was bizarre to see a fish that big. I didn't realize that it was rare to see one that big at the time, but now I have that picture to show off:)
It's a circle hook dude it's so you don't gut hook a fish that's why it's round so it rolls back up and catches their lip not their gut we use circle hooks all the time here in the gulf of Mexico Jeremy practices catch and release do you remember the tigerfish episode
Halibut are no joke. Husband's grandfather/uncles caught a halibut once and while they were hauling it onshore, it's tail got the downrigger weights tangled around it. So this fish is pissed and thrashing about, those weights turned into a 5lb medieval flail. Nearly broke one uncle's leg, nearly smashed a hole in the boat. They managed to stab it in the collar, bash it over the head a few times and then ran like hell out of range just to keep from being bludgeoned to death themselves. No idea how big it was, likely not a noteworthy size but still big enough to kill them. Another one grandfather caught was a record breaking fish for the cove he used to fish at. The halibut was more than 6foot long and weighed at least 220lbs. I've seen the picture, massive beast. He held that record for more than 20 years.
100lbs and so powerful, I did a Google and the record is 515lbs on rod and reel but I'm sure bigger still have been trawled up, great video I love a bit of Wade action!
Watching from Kashmir and it's great to see catching monster Halibut. Dealing with such big monsters can be nasty but skilfully done by Jeremy John Wade - The master fisherman of all time 🙂. In one one his interview I watched, he said he keeps a secret bait, I hope he will share that bait with everyone soon 🤞
I enjoy your videos and was subscribed but it's been a while and I like your catch and release principles, so thanks for all the work you've done to give us a glimpse of what it's like to hook something impressive.
You are a crazy man Jeremy Wade! Bringing that fish on the boat just to get a look and then release it. People have died bringing those fish onto the boat while they're still alive.
I've seen fishing trip documentaries from when I was a kid and anglers in New found land and Alaska were catching halibut, on average of about 300 pounds. Your 150-160 lb fish is rather small compared to that, I guess all the big halibut have been caught.
Yeah it's funny, just a few days ago I was reading his newest book and he was talking about this. If he caught multiple fish they will show videos of him fighting the fish from both and then simply display the larger fish. He said it was one of the tv camera tricks he is willing to admit
His first attempt was on the Western side of the Aleutian Chain at a village that is so small and semi remote. They fish with aluminum skiffs. There is no harbor there and therefore no boats that were able to go out in the weather conditions that you saw in the video. I have flown out to this village and it is a beautiful place. However like he mentioned that when the weather gets bad it can stay this way for awhile. Whenever I flew out to the Aleutian Chain I always packed enough for up to a month, minimum. Born and raised out there on the Bering Sea in another village roughly 260 miles North of the Aleutian Chain.
That's small! My Dad was working salmon canneries before Alaska was a state,and we have sepia colored photos of halibut so large that they were hung from timbers and would dwarf a man. Crabs so big that he could sit on them. Photos of that too!
My uncle was in USCG stationed near Ketchikan, AK in the'60s. My grandfather took me there in '68. We fished almost every day for 2 weeks. Fish this big were a pretty regular catch. My uncle had to shoot them before we brought 'em aboard in his 24 ft boat. We also had king crab every night at dinner! My granddad bought 2 large suitcases to bring over 100lbs of frozen fillets home.
They used to be massive but commercial fishing has devastated local spots... gotta go waaaay out for the monsters now. Best are between 20 and 40 pounds, good eaters
Next time you guys edit a fish battle, make sure your reels are the same color....transition from Gold International Penn to Blue Avet for the same fight footage. C'mon Jeremy?
Definitely some TV magic going on here. His reel changes like 3 times during the fight which is impossible unless he used footage of him reeling in a different fish to fill in some time but something weird is going on 😂.
That is a kid halibut, size wise, approaching teenage size, relative to us. My dad and I were avid divers, he, much more so than I. He opened, owned and along side mom, my uncle Robert and aunt Shirley, operated the Aquarius Dive Shop on Del Monte blvd in Monterey, Ca, back in the early 70's. That said, He was on a grid search for a ship, or, at least, a very big boat wreck in Monterey Bay, which he found the huge anchor ⚓, that, to my knowledge, is still in front of the Aquarius Dive Shop. But he also heard a terribly loud thumping just a few feet from him, but because visibility was only two feet, he saw nothing. Nothing, that is, except the 7 ft long, 4 ft wide foot print left behind by a granddaddy halibut! He had pictures of it. He laid down in it and it surpassed his 6 ft, head to toe length. He also had a Polaroid photo taken in Alaska of a similar sized halibut which was 964?... 960some lbs hanging in the shop for years!... Who knows what's down there. There could be some twice that size! I hear they harpoon them like whales. Or at least they used to. Not that I like that sort of thing! I don't! But if there's monster fish down there, I'm glad they are not all gone!
