Nice catch!! If you are catching and releasing halibut try to not let them smack their tails on the rocks or hard surface causes splits in its tail that ends up infection rot and don’t hold halibut by the gills either theirs a spot where you hold n squeeze and they become paralyzed or use fish grips !! If you are keeping them legals it doesn’t matter lol
Get a big net with small holes and is made of rubber and some grippers. If you’re fishing off rocks u should always have a path/rock to land and release the fish. Make it easier on them
thanks for watching, these where my first couple videos , the content and my skills are better now I learned from this video how to better treat my fish
Whatever you feel comfortable with. You want to cast as far as you can so whatever you think you can throw farther then use that reel. Thanks for watch bro