| I didn't know what to say when my husband said | | | | Trying to convince me even further, he was |
| to me, "Hey, do you want to go fishing in Alaska? | | | | telling me that our catch for the day would be |
| I have always wanted to go Halibut fishing with | | | | quite the tasty one, which I told him I was not |
| you." I couldn't believe that he wanted to go | | | | going to take the responsibility of prepping the |
| Alaska Halibut fishing with me. That just didn't | | | | fish. That is something he said that he would do. I |
| seem right because I'm not exactly an outdoorsy | | | | figured he would make me watch, though. But it |
| type of girl. I would rather stay inside with my | | | | was great because we met up with a charter and |
| computer and play an electronic fishing game. But | | | | the price wasn't really that bad. My husband had |
| I decided to go. | | | | done research prior to our trip to make sure he |
| My husband started telling me all of these random | | | | found the best charter with the best boat |
| facts about Halibut. He explained to me that it is in | | | | because he didn't want to mar the experience for |
| the flatfish family. When he said that, I was | | | | me. He figured that, if I enjoyed the experience, I |
| imaging this paper thin fish, wondering how its | | | | would let him get our own boat. That's something |
| organs would fit in there. But I knew I was just | | | | I had been objecting to for quite sometime. |
| being ridiculous in my thoughts, especially when he | | | | But I was quite impressed with the entire |
| told me that the largest Halibut have been | | | | experience. It was relaxing and my husband and I |
| weighed in at 500 pounds. I looked at my | | | | talked about a lot of things, including our desire to |
| husband's pole and wondered how in the world he | | | | have children. I had no idea what his views were |
| could go Halibut fishing in Alaska with that thing. It | | | | on the subject until we went fishing in Alaska. I |
| didn't look like it could handle 500 pounds. | | | | learned a lot about my husband that day. I also |
| However, he did tell me that the average weight | | | | learned a lot when we actually reeled in a 60 |
| is 25 pounds. That is certainly a far cry from 500. | | | | pound Halibut. It was so large that we had to take |
| However, my husband decided that we go to | | | | it to a butcher to have it packaged for us to take |
| Homer, Alaska, which is considered the Halibut | | | | home. That had me sighing a sigh of relief, but I |
| fishing capital of the world. This is because 50 to | | | | must say that it was the tastiest fish I had ever |
| 80 pound Halibut are common for this particular | | | | had. |
| region. I asked my husband, "Will your pole handle | | | | And now, it looks like next year my husband and |
| that kind of weight" and he told me that it would. | | | | I will go Alaska Halibut fishing with one more on |
| I certainly couldn't see how, but I took his word | | | | board. |
| for it. | | | | |