The story about a big fish

Sumer time on the sea

Two years ago I was to on the sea to catch some pollocks for dinner. Suddenly there was something really heavy on the line. When tis happens you have only one thing to do, don't hold back the line let the fish run out, if not you will loose the fish. After one and a half hour with a little bit in and out with the line the fish appears in the surface, an huge halibut. I always have a hook on a stick in the boat for to pick bigger fishes from the sea. I tried to use this two times, impossible, the fish was to big and heavy, the fish splashed a lot and pulled the line and swam down into the depths again.
What to do now, drag the fish to the shore. Started the engine and slowly dragged the fish towards the shore, again impossible, when the fish came in on shallow water it runs out on the sea again more line out and followed the fish out again. What to do now, the fish is to big for the boat , can not drag it alive on the shore. One last opportunity, kill the fish first. After a while I got the fish to the surface again, took a big knife put the arm down in the water and I managed to stick the fish in an important place to make it bleed. A last run out with the bleeding fish, then I knew the fish was mine. The weight? Had to cut the fish into pieces to weigh it, did not have large enough weight. The weight was just over fifty kilos.

Finally the fish safe on the shore

Notice the little fishing hook, barely hooked in the fish

A bear after the long work

A fishing history fro the north

Regards
Jan