Charter operators in the Gulf of Alaska will soon be able to buy halibut quota from willing commercial fishermen. That’s after funding was included for a new catch-sharing program in the federal ...

Check out this barn door Halibut we caught in Alaska! What a great day out on the water. We were out here bottom bouncing for halibut in Peterborough Alaska, using the Teaser-T, Cattail sinkers, and ...

Six men spent more than two hours tugging the massive flatfish from a frozen fjord in Quebec as part of a research project studying halibut populations in the region ...

Dock Totals 7/10 – 7/16: 4424 anglers aboard 189 half-day to 3-day trips out of San Diego landings this past week caught 397 barracuda, 793 bluefin tuna (to 210 pounds), 1 blue perch, 4 bocaccio, 1868 ...

Capt. Jim Walsh on his 100-foot charter boat, American Classic, left the Hampton, New Hampshire, marina at 9 p.m. Sunday. By 4 a.m. he and his crew of 30 anglers were 100 miles offshore in the ...

Federal fishery regulators meeting this week in Anchorage are trying again to end a 15-year battle between two competing fleets that hook halibut for a living. The proposal now on the table would ...

The Largest Halibut Ever Caught Angler Marco Liebenow never expected his fishing trip to turn into a record breaking battle. Angler Marco Liebenow never expected his fishing trip to turn into a ...

A woman from Fairbanks, Alaska, has taken the lead in the annual Valdez Halibut Derby with a catch last Friday that tipped the scale at 144.2 pounds. Melissa Hurd told Alaska’s News Source that the ...

SAN FRANCISCO – Virginia Salvador of Vacaville took a well-deserved break from her full-time job as a laboratory scientist and weekend occupation as a charter boat captain on San Francisco Bay out of ...

Kyle Perry of North Pole reeled in a 76-pound halibut aboard the Sentinel last Thursday. Moments later, Thomas Rakowski II of Valdez hooked into a 115.6-pound halibut the minute his bait on his ...

"It was very exciting. Everybody was screaming and yelling, it was great," he said about the potential record-setting catch. "He could miss the playoffs for the rest of his career, I wouldn't give a ...

Alain Hamel caught the largest Atlantic halibut ever recorded in the Saguenay Fjord on Saturday. Working with the local Fjord Museum, the ice fishing was part of a scientific project aiming to gain ...