❖ HONKING HALIBUT ❖

Captain Fritz Kragh,
TONGAS 
with a 350 pound North Pacific Halibut.
5 September 1930
Original photo from the archives of the S.P.H.S.©

Twenty-five halibut, netted the fishing crew $7,000 at wholesale prices. That is the record of the smack TONGAS, that delivered its North Pacific catch (above) at Seattle for shipment to New York.

Crew of Schooner VENTURE 
A giant halibut weighing 425 pounds, caught 
on Portlock Banks in the Gulf of Alaska.
The 8' 6" long x 4' 3" wide halibut
was landed at Seattle, WA. 
April 1934.
Original photo from the archives of the S.P.H.S.©

Capt. F.J. Tuttle
of Lummi Island, WA.
Largest halibut at 148 lbs caught in
Puget Sound on sport tackle.
11 November 1947.
Original photo from the archives of S.P.H.S.©

2003: Crew of commercial vessel Miss Mary caught a halibut off St. Paul Island, AK that weighed in at 533 pounds.

2014: Jack McGuire of Anaheim, CA caught a 482 pound halibut in SE Alaska. The fish didn't get in the sport fishing record book because he needed help getting the fish on board.