Hauling Halibut Longline Sets - Small Boat Fishing in Alaska

Alright guys, on to our next set here, the first one was a little slow, we had about 250 pounds, it could have been better, it could have been worse, that's right,

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, so we're getting up to our buoys here, yeah, we'll see how this. The next one I anchor there will probably be some rockfish on this edge too, hopefully one or two fat yellow eyes would be quite lovely and another one after him or not, he's a keeper, here we go, we're serious, I'm just Testing. I'm fired for doing as in the ads. It's the quality of the water today or something like that.

Hey guys, I think I can probably slow down. I probably should have fooled him a lot more suspiciously here. Yeah, damn line. Alright, he's got me there. It's okay again with the line, seriously, yes, I think one is cheaper, but nothing, go there, we go, guys, with a nice yellow eye, yes, get eaten there, yes, beautiful, okay, another one, there's another one that's cute, that's cute, yeah, don't worry. He must have gotten tired because new, okay, we have a five percent bycatch on our rockfish. Well, yeah, good shot, took out another yellow eye. Yeah, okay, we'll take it.

Another yellow eye. There's a yellow eye right here. Sometimes another big one, they always seem. Bigger than they really are, yeah, like big ones are okay, one weighs like eight pounds, yeah, hard work, mom, beautiful fish, been scratching his belly on the coral down there, red, red, Well, here are a couple of tubs left. Good fish, good quality, they are not. Huge, but that's okay, I don't like to catch big fish, anyway, these

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er ones are better, you don't end up with a four inch thick fillet, there's a good one, guys, good stick, guys, anchors up, good set, probably maybe 450. yeah. looks like around 4500 500 somewhere in there ok not bad pretty consistent throughout bigger has a nice yellow eye not much for cod I think just one just that one anyway everything is okay, so we'll bring this buoy. line we'll start cleaning these items again okay guys we just have a few hooks here and that's it good another good ah not really and put it out before it falls off I don't know what's going on with these fish. wow, meat stick, no skateboard, no,

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, very good too, wow, good stick, made him go crazy, there's a nice one down there, let's skate on the stage first, one of the set sometimes these skates come here so thick it's like a skid on every hook or two. and the big ones too, about three times, that's a longnose door, the appropriately named big skate literally has like six feet longer wingspan and weighs 80 pounds at the end of those

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, you're wiped out, you little colony of snails, yeah, that's gross, cute, cute, everything. right, let's go back to the other side, let's go back to those pretty sides, the ones we like, it's too ugly to even show to the audience, yes, I have the little ones here, sure, surprisingly pretty, a big one, maybe, eh, but it did like this. that talk here is just me putting the pot here if anyone is wondering, it's pretty good is that, although I have to start it too much, yeah, it's good, the whole set, yeah, well, 400, don't let it bite you, she's not stomping on the fish, she's just running her foot through the fish, just FYI, we've seen it on some videos, so anyone who says, let's not stomp on the fish, we don't roll like that, yeah, like 10 tubs for transport about 45 minutes. on this end it's a little longer at the beginning because the diameter of the rails is

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er, so even at maximum we have a valve there that we open a little bit, and when a big fish gets on those, that really does it. oh yeah, with all your might oh my god, okay guys, we just finished our last set, it's pretty good, like the last one, maybe 500 550 pounds, I'm very happy with that one, yeah, great set, good rating, yeah good fish yeah so I think that puts We're about 1250 1300 pounds a day I'm pretty happy about that yeah that's not a bad haul so let's just clean these guys up freeze them and go back to home, yes it sounds good so please share and subscribe.

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