Halibut Fishing In Homer, AK

Here are a bunch of pics from our fishing trip in Homer. It was an AMAZING experience. We caught tons of fish and the highlight of the day was the 140 lb. halibut that we got. It is huge, as you can see in the pictures. Tanner, a 13 year old that was with us, hooked it. He and I worked on reeling it in until we couldn't do it any more. Then Skip brought him in the rest of the way. It was crazy because as soon as it got to the boat the captain shot it in the head so that it wouldn't tear up the boat or knock someone out! CRAZY!! We caught 4 different kinds of fish and had a buffet of all 4 a day later. It was yummy! The best part is that we caught our fish for the year in a day!

The ride out was 3 hours. We saw lots of beautiful scenery and slept some!

There were a bunch of sea lions on this island. We also saw otters and seals on the ride out.

I caught this yellow-eyed rock fish, which I guess is pretty rare.

It is a pretty creepy looking fish!

When the captain was fileting one of the halibut he found this crab inside!

Measuring the 140 pounder!

These are the lips of the 140 pounder!

These are just the fish that were the biggest. We actually caught a lot more!