Capturing a hefty halibut on a dinky rod from an ocean-going kayak isn't easy work — nor necessarily safe when waves pick up, something Kathleen Reeves discovered during last week's second-annual ...

Slow pitch jigging for halibut combines targeted gear choices with deliberate technique to land these powerful bottom dwellers. Matching rod, reel, line, and jig weight to depth and current is key.

Halibut are plentiful in shallow local waters, both along the coast and at the Channel Islands. This Captain’s Log is designed to help you catch one of our tastiest fish in the sea. There are three ...

An angler who pulls in with a rod and reel an almost 72-pound halibut might make a splashy social media post, but the big fish Lisa Stengel caught Monday gained distinction for how she took it, not ...

Join us for a beautiful day in Homer, Alaska, as we catch halibut and make delicious halibut kelp slaw sandwiches. The gear ...

Moving away from an emphasis on the heavyweight, long-lived, big halibut apparently is proving that people just want to catch fish, at least in the Homer Halibut Jackpot Derby. It's a banner year for ...

VALDEZ — Michael Olson of North Pole came down to Valdez to work on his boat trailer Saturday, left the port about 2 p.m. and had a 151.6-pound halibut on his boat at about 3:45 p.m. Olson said he was ...

A couple of weeks ago, we told you that our own ace angler, Napan Terry Gonsalves, had the top halibut at that time in Alaska’s 2014 Seward Halibut Derby — weighing 145.2 pounds. That put Terry in the ...

An angler who at first thought he was snagged on the bottom reeled in an extraordinarily massive halibut off Norway on Monday, but not without extreme difficulty. Christer Carlund was drift-fishing ...

The International Fish and Game Association (IFGA) is in the process of determining if a 13-year-old from Hampton, New Hampshire caught a record-setting halibut. Jackson Denio reeled in the 177-pound ...