2018 Alaska Fishing Reports

[fishkid]

Not to much chatter in the alaska forum.  Here is a few pictures from this year so far in our boat we just got last year.  Mostly just fish out of homer and have been doing pretty good this year.

my buddy got that big halibut when we were trolling for kings, quite the fights on a 8.5' ugly stick!

Edited July 9, 2018 by fishkid

[fishkid]

Parents came up for the week and we were able to get out on the boat for some fishing. Silvers weren't in yet, the rock fish were a little slow but we stumbled onto a few real nice halibut. The big one went 160 pounds.  Pulled it out of 35' of water, it was awesome watching the drag scream for a few minutes on the first run it took.

[Wanderer]

I missed your July post.  Thanks for getting 2018 thread going!  I just shake my head every time I see pics like that from the last frontier.  Always makes me wonder what I’m doing here. 

[fishkid]

got out this weekend. tried to troll for some silvers but gave up at 7 hours of no luck.  Decided to try for some halibut and found this guy 135# and 63".  We did end up getting one silver eventually

[EnriqueSmith]

OMG!!

[Wanderer]

@fishkid

 

Nice “consolation prize”.   I’m hoping next year is my year to get back up there.

[fishkid]

well the ocean adventures are slowly coming to an end this year. Got out for ducks a few times and our best was 30 for 3 guys. Surf scoters, barrow golden eyes and a few harliquin. Havent had much luck for crab. would have gotten into them good this last trip but this octopus decided that the crab and hanging pike i was using for bait was its dinner.  He took my crab i took one of his legs to cook up and threw him back. Hopefully he learned a lesson not to mess with crab pots.