Alaska. Fishing for halibut

Writes traveling the Alaska Sergey Dolya. This time he did not ohotilya whale's tail, and halibut ...

Fishing for halibut appeared sooooovsem not like I imagined ...
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Suddenly, in the morning it did not rain and the sun periodically attempted to break through the clouds:



Getting off the ship, we plunged into small craft and went to catch halibut - one of the tastiest fish in the world:



Alaska - an amazing place. We were there at the height of summer. If clouds appear gap, through which were showing the sun, all around getting cold and blue:



When the sun goes, all painted in gray lifeless color:

There were six fishermen on the boat. The captain gave each of indomitable fishing pole and began to prepare the bait.



He Sardinella sliced ​​in half and skewer it on a giant hook:



Kryuchochek ... o_O



Nazhivochka))



Then we "threw" (ie just throwing) hook polukilogrammovym cargo overboard and waited two minutes until he falls to the 70-meter depth. Further, if for a minute you do not have pecked, then ate the bait, and you still need to pull out. If swallowed, it can not strike, so as not to tear the hook out of his mouth halibut, you need to wait a few seconds until he rasprobuet bait, and begin to turn the coil. Tension on the line almost not felt - oak fishing rod too. Minutes after 3 - 4 is displayed on the surface of the fish and the captain dragged her into the boat and took off the hook.

For a half hour of fishing we caught with the older 15 halibut, and then became very interested. Well, what kind of fishing: Scored-caught. No fight, no excitement. Quickly tired:



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The captain gets the first fish fine:



The first joy:



Memory photo:



Releasing fish:



Before we bought a fishing license on which we could keep the fish for 2 each, so fishing continued. Big fish fetched bagorikom:



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If the instance decides to leave, the captain hit him on the head with the bat, he notched gills ...



... And hidden in a special compartment



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On the way back I filled out a special form, which "commanded" our gray caught fish with my brother, who lives in Florida (unfortunately, in Russia they do not send the fish). A few days later he got it:



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Already on the shore we passed by other fishermen. They are beautifully hung their fish



Local craftsmen skillfully butchered fish.
Sorry, that just does not have the number of photons in the set)) Heat-to ...
That's it - the finish.



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