Biggest Butts

[Lazy Flamingo]

Finally I have learned what your term "butt" refers to .... :D

Now, just for the halibut, who here feels that they have landed the
"biggest butt" of all time? Please state size / weight / where caught.

Keep it clean, I am talking about fish here, not the 2 legged type of
"big butts" you have met in bars .... :roll:

[Randygh]

I caught a 101# halibut while fishing out of Homer, AK in 1996. I was given a 100# pin by the skipper of the charter boat so I can prove the catch. All three of my kids limited that day with our daughter out fishing her brothers. It was a great day and we ate frozen halibut for 2 years.

[Go Aweigh2452]

and we ate frozen halibut for 2 years.

I normally cook mine first... tastes much better and cuts down on the blue lips at dinner...

sorry, long day of working in the yard does that to a guy whose only company was a dog that doesn't understand but hangs out with me anyway

[Lazy Flamingo]

101 pounds .... :shock:
How big those things get?

[Randygh]

Butts can grow to very large size. Don't know about Alaska records, but they can grow to 300#+. Spud and others who fish locally have much more knowledge than me about WA butts.

[SPUD]

The Hook and Line record is 459 (Alaska). Washington State record
is 288. Big ones around here are considered over 60 but some
are caught in the 150-175 pound range.

Spud

[Go Aweigh2452]

I believe the big ones (sarcastic tone) around here are due to most fishing done on the banks. Butts, as they grow older, tend toward deeper water and will eventually be at the 200-300 fathoms most of their adult lives. The young ones stay in shallow waters until they are around 5-7 years old and migrate a lot. As they get older, they stay in a small migratory area and live at the deeper depths. It is much easier for sport fishermen to fish the banks then to go really deep... hence the smaller (15-100 lb) size of most butts caught.

[Randygh]

When we chartered out of Homer, the skipper took us to a favorite fishing area. The tide was running ~5 knots which made the area unfishable until slack water. We motored closer to shore in a sheltered area where there were some nice kelp beds. The skipper said occassionally his clients would hook a "kelper" near the beds. He said they are usually large females feeding near the kelp. While we waited for slack water one of the fellows along with us caught a huge butt. If I remember correctly it was about 150 #. The skipper shot it with a .410 before bringing it aboard. It took the skipper, the fisherman and his buddy to lift her aboard. My kids and I were totally awestruck by the size of the fish. If I remember correctly it wasn't very deep around the kelp.

[Go Aweigh2452]

yeah, probably caught a female... females are the big ones... almost twice the size of the males... and they live over 40 years so she probalby was around 15-25 yrs young...

[sunnydude2]

When we were fishing west of Ketchikan a couple years ago, any female butts caught over 100lbs were released. The guy who caught the largest was a 350lb of which they took picture and released.

[SPUD]

The chicken butt is better tastin anyway :D .

Sean, I just realized you are on the same dock as I am in Everett !
This calls for a Frosty meeting ! :occasion5:

Spud

[sunnydude2]

What slip are you in Spud? You won't be for long though right? About to purchase a 50'er? :D

[SPUD]

We are in 37 I believe. Looked at the 50 open today on A dock.
Went in to the office and said "we'll take it". They said "you have to have a bigger boat". SOOOOOO, I can take the slip, give up mine,
and if I dont have at least a 40 footer in 90 days......I'm out.

I won't be "forced" to buy a boat in 90 days so it looks like I'll drop to the bottom of the waiting list.

Spud

[Stratocaster]

Kevin Sanders (former BOC Manager) caught a 260 pounder in the Gulf of AK. Here's his pic (that's Kevin on the right):

http://www.baylinerownersclub.org/albums/album77/halibut_hanging.jpg

[Seapuppy]

first off...let me clarify that I don't fish.....don't profess to know the first thing about fishing...with that said....a buddy of mine that I used to work with in 747 electrical is a fishing fool...he lives for fishing...he showed me a pic of his 120#er that he caught right out here off of Hat island....that's pretty awesome to me...don't know what he used for bait or test of line or anything else...... :argh arrr

[Lazy Flamingo]

Puppy Chow,

It was 10lb test line & garden worm on a bamboo pole ... :D

sorry, long day of working in the yard does that to a guy whose only company was a dog that doesn't understand but hangs out with me anyway

He only wants the halibut. :)

[Randygh]

120#er off Hat Island. That's incredible. I didn't realize butts (of the fish variety) were that far into the Sound. I thought most butt fishers fished in the Strait or out in the ocean. (I shouldn't be too surprised since there is a great concentration of butts at the southern end of Puget Sound in Olympia.)

[Lazy Flamingo]

http://www.geocities.com/roomnl/IBNW/butt_fishing1.png

[Pegasis]

Friend caught one that I felleted for him out of Port Angeles, west of the Rock Pile. This was a 160# fish, approximately 6' long. That day he made the local paper.

[Tedster]

Careful with that felleted word there pal! Ted :lol:

Careful with that felleted word there pal! Ted :lol:

"felleted" ... "fellated" ... "filleted"

You guys are pretty scarey... Al wants to go "Butt Fishing" ... maybe you could take him humpy hunting? 8)

[Roel Jansen]

When ever I see pictures of men with a caught fish I never see the fish smile!

[SPUD]

You have to fellet them real good to get them to smile.
:shock:

Then you can fillet em !
:D


Spud

You're sounding kindof scarey yourself there SPUD :)

(you catchin' any btw?)

[Lazy Flamingo]

You have to fellet them real good to get them to smile. :shock:
Then you can fillet em ! :D
When you "fellet" them, are the gills open or closed,
and do they wag their tails like a little puppy dog? .. http://www.websmileys.com/sm/sad/533.gif

huh?

[Lazy Flamingo]

Mike,
We loose you somewhere between the "fellet" & the "fillet"? .. :roll:

http://www.geocities.com/roomnl/IBNW/spud.png

I'm just wondering how your dog got into this?

[Lazy Flamingo]

Dog? What Dog? I don't own a dog .... http://www.binaryrhyme.com/ubbicons/popworm.gif