And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Sunday, August 28, 2016
Another bucket list item - fishing for barn door halibut in Alaska.
Fishing for barn doors is fine, just don't do what these guys did. You really don't want to eat the ones that are much over a hundred pounds. Not only are they tough and sometimes full of worms, they start to get heavy metals. Just my two cents worth from a whole bunch of summers up there fishing both for fun and as a guide. 40 to 60 lbs is kind of the sweet spot, I think.
Former flyer is right. Chicken halibut are smaller and a lot better. I have caught many in Alaska while we lived there. Most mainland Alaskans go to Homer for halibut but Homer is on Cook inlet. Cook inlet has really strong tides making it impossible to reach the bottom where the halibut live, except at slack tide. There are just as many if you fish out of Seward but the tidal range is much less.
That's a lot of halibut steaks.
ReplyDeleteFishing for barn doors is fine, just don't do what these guys did. You really don't want to eat the ones that are much over a hundred pounds. Not only are they tough and sometimes full of worms, they start to get heavy metals. Just my two cents worth from a whole bunch of summers up there fishing both for fun and as a guide. 40 to 60 lbs is kind of the sweet spot, I think.
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Former flyer is right. Chicken halibut are smaller and a lot better. I have caught many in Alaska while we lived there. Most mainland Alaskans go to Homer for halibut but Homer is on Cook inlet. Cook inlet has really strong tides making it impossible to reach the bottom where the halibut live, except at slack tide. There are just as many if you fish out of Seward but the tidal range is much less.
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