Originally Posted by
super_hunt54
Do some working out if you plan on Halibut. It's a boring fight, Boring but ROUGH generally, but basically they are just one big fin and USUALLY found very deep. Do a lot of curls and shoulder lifts.
Yeah I know all about pulling that kind of weight off a 200 to 400 foot bottom. I have done a fair share of ocean fishing for fish like grouper in Florida and ground fish commonly caught off the North Atlantic coast and yes it always makes your arms and back ache. Had a good trip 1 1/2 year ago on a pollock slam. It was 2 at a time in 180 ft and they averaged 10 pounds and ran up to 30 some odd.
Getting 2 jumbos on at once gave the kind of fight you are talking about. We did catch a few Atlantic Halibut but the biggest was 90 pounds. I brought home 200 pounds of fillets from that trip. Still eating it.