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So a question first. Has anyone observed the halibut in Lower Cook Inlet to be larger on average this year than say the past several years? Over the past few years, we'd be pretty stoked to land someting over 20 pounds. This year we seem to be hitting a few more fish over 30 pounds in the area. I was wondering if it was something I changed up or if others were observing the same pattern?
So our Alaska Yak Classic was held this weekend on Lower Cook Inlet targeting halibut. We had about a dozen folks show up. I pre-fished Friday and limited out with a 30 and 40 pounder and released 4 more fish. Unfortunately the two days of the tournament, the fishing just shut down. Almost everyone caught a fish, but none were bigger than 20 pounds. On Sunday, I launch at 4:30am to catch the high slack. I only got one good strike but it turned out to be the eventual derby winner at 46" and 42 lbs.
Ended up taking 4 fish home (20,30,40, and 42 lbs) on two half days and one full day of fishing. Didn't limit on two days partially since we were looking for the one whopper for the tournament after we kept a smaller fish.
So the fishing until this weekend had been steller. But they are still there close in and a few of the fish are pretty nice!
So here's a video of a few of my fish. Missed a few due to technical issues. The first half of the video is a little longer segment on the 42 pounder. if you get bored, you can skip to 2:00 of the video and that's when I harpoon it. The second half of the video is the 4 or 5 other fish I caught. Released most of them.
Just getting started on this halibut from a kayak thing. Any advice, comments, or just observations are welcome!!!!
Hope more folks can join us next year or even this season!
So our Alaska Yak Classic was held this weekend on Lower Cook Inlet targeting halibut. We had about a dozen folks show up. I pre-fished Friday and limited out with a 30 and 40 pounder and released 4 more fish. Unfortunately the two days of the tournament, the fishing just shut down. Almost everyone caught a fish, but none were bigger than 20 pounds. On Sunday, I launch at 4:30am to catch the high slack. I only got one good strike but it turned out to be the eventual derby winner at 46" and 42 lbs.
Ended up taking 4 fish home (20,30,40, and 42 lbs) on two half days and one full day of fishing. Didn't limit on two days partially since we were looking for the one whopper for the tournament after we kept a smaller fish.
So the fishing until this weekend had been steller. But they are still there close in and a few of the fish are pretty nice!
So here's a video of a few of my fish. Missed a few due to technical issues. The first half of the video is a little longer segment on the 42 pounder. if you get bored, you can skip to 2:00 of the video and that's when I harpoon it. The second half of the video is the 4 or 5 other fish I caught. Released most of them.
Just getting started on this halibut from a kayak thing. Any advice, comments, or just observations are welcome!!!!
Hope more folks can join us next year or even this season!
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