Third time is the charm

As the title says.. Third time is the charm, atleast for me.

After loosing one big halibut every trip, before, due to inexperience and bad gear. This time I was prepared, I took it calm and it went good all the way. It wasn't a huge halibut but still decent enough to be very happy!

Our weather recently has been far from optimal with winds up to 17 m/s but we still kept fishing. We had heavy rain and hail coming in heavy bursts. Today we drifted far to fast to use soft baits so I changed to a heavy metal jig on 500g and rigged it with one assist hook and one owner single hook so i could keep bottom contact and work the jig from bottom and up.

 I fished from the bottom and far up and about 15 meters from the surface when I felt something, I slowed down and waited a second or so, then made one last jig and I felt it right away. It was ON!.

 The fight lasted about 12-15 minutes long and we got most of it on film but it will be a while before we got anything edited and done, I might put up a link to the raw material.

The Synit Deepshot 350 Strumpan did the job at ease and it was a pleasure putting pressure on the halibut, the bend in the rod is just amazing you can see how soft it is but still extremely strong. The bend is crazy. I felt i could easily put on much larger fish without having to worry. I am also very satisified with my new JM reels having a leverdrag instead of a star drag makes fishing so much easier.

We caught the halibut on Storflaket on the southern tip of Vaeroy. This is the same area we earlier caught the small fish on. Its a big sandy area with around 45 meters depth.

We decided to keep it since it wasn't huge and we have been hungering for some good halibut meat and to tired of cod... In the harbour it was measured to 150cm and weighted 35,2 when it was bled out. The other people at harbour said it should have weighted 40kg due to empty stomach.

This is the last chapter of this trip to Vaeroy. I will write a sum up about the trip altogether after. But "as" I promised some people here is the fish together with my rod ;)

Now comes the long wait for the ferry and then a very long drive home. It feels both sad and great to leave this place. 7 days on the ocean does the trick... It worns you out in a good way!

Adios for now!