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@@SRSR-pc8ti I hope I see her again someday! 😄

@@adambailes8241 it’s an EXCELLENT reason!

@@NinjaOnANinja tons of Jellyfish out here!

@@AlaskaWhaleanddronetours that’s a jellyfish? wtf?

@@NinjaOnANinja we need probably have HUNDREDS of different Jellyfish species up here, many of which might not even be named.

@@AlaskaWhaleanddronetours why don't we call them aliens? I mean look at those things! No way they are Jellyfish.

@@bravendyer9529 biggest Alaskan halibut FILMED

They still do, it's just hard to find them in those sizes. I have a buddy, an experienced fisherman, who lost one after three hours of fighting. He's landed fish that were 250lbs+ without too much trouble in 30 mins, but this one never even came towards the surface. He could see it on his fish-finder though, and it was a monster halibut. Longline fishermen get hooks straightened out sometimes too, from fish that were just too powerful to bring up. Some of them just outclass the gear they're trying to catch them with.

Thank you sir! I appreciate all who value breeders being in the ocean instead of being trophies!

Show me a video of an Alaskan Halibut over 290lbs swimming around in the ocean, and I'll change the title.

@@veclubby he did well, but not well enough.

@@topherd1011 the Sea Lion was huge, he makes them look smaller. They also don’t usually go for the biggest sea lion they can find. This is the only hunt on a full-sized Beachmaster I’ve even heard of!

@@allensauler7960 thank you!!

@@bevgordon7619 interestingly enough my viewers increased after I mentioned that we hooked her. (It’s a female halibut because only the females reach these sizes. Male halibut rarely get over 50lbs.) I believe it is no more immoral for a person to kill and eat a fish than it is for a fish or other creature to kill and eat a fish, and the vast majority of my viewers share this perspective. However, we do have the opportunity to be even better than wild animals, and be able to choose between the fish we catch and decide which ones to eat. This particular fish has far more value alive, breeding and making millions more halibut than it would be dead. The other halibut we caught that day were not so lucky, they were smaller and better table fare so we killed and sent them home with our clients to be eaten. As far as damage, trauma, and lasting injuries for the fish? Lol. We use circle hooks specifically for this reason. They hook into the bony corner of the mouth and secure the fish with minimal chances of tearing, gut-hooking, or gill-ripping. Halibut hooked on a circle hood have a better than 95% survival rate when released, and I guarantee she was just fine. When she got to the surface, she looked relaxed, and that’s how most of these big fish come up. The “big fight” was mostly just her letting her weight and shape in the strong current give the guy something hard to pull up. I’ve seen these fish when they aren’t relaxed, and they are extremely strong and dangerous. They also eat hard, spiny, sharp things on a daily basis. Rockfish, sculpin, whole crabs, etc. Their mouths are built to take damage like what the hooks do, and still keep going. When we released her, she practically shrugged as she casually swam down. Not from exhaustion or anything like that, because she had PLENTY of energy left she didn’t use, but because she wasn’t even bothered by us. That being said, even if it was more traumatic, it still would have been necessary because that’s the way we can catch fish and choose which ones to keep. Or are you a fan of factory trawlers coming in and dragging the ocean floor, indiscriminately killing everything? That’s the alternative, because people are still going to eat fish.

@@stanettiels7367 we caught a bunch of smaller ones that we kept, that taste WAAAY better than this old chewy girl would have. Those were delicious!

@@AlaskaWhaleanddronetours Yeah, I’d imagine a dinosaur like the monster you caught probably wouldn’t be the nicest taste/texture, lol. I bet you can’t beat freshly caught halibut. From the ocean to the plate within a few hours, I bet it’s the best tasting you can get it.

@@stanettiels7367 it’s VERY good!

@@AlaskaWhaleanddronetours Stop, you’re making me hungry 👍🏻.

@@omaralvarado3559 Orca are extremely capable, but if they had messed up I think the Sea Lion would have bit them. Just goes to show how good the Orca are at this; they didn’t make a single mistake and their strategies were flawless.

@@CarlMiller-ql2wz it’s true the ending was pretty inevitable, as long as the Orca didn’t give up. But you have to give credit to the Sea Lion for giving them such a hard time!

They're pretty fearsome on their own too, but in a pod? Unmatched.

@@craigclark931 yep, people catch bigger fish than this every year, but this is the biggest one caught on film swimming around in the wild! If you know of a film of a bigger one, send it to me and I’ll rename this video.

@@Eggnog88 we were about a mile from land, but I think the Orca kept tabs on him every time they swam away, and if he had tried, they would have intercepted him quickly.

Decoying and then slamming into them from behind? 😆

@@jeromedamian5740 they’re still out there! I wouldn’t say the big ones are abundant, but they’re out there.

@@bilharzia thank you!

@@bobcat1933 it’s hard to be a cameraman and captain at the same time!! I had to make sure nobody got hurt or dragged overboard and I had to carefully release the giant fish without getting snagged on the hook.

@@nathanscott1315 they’re one of my favorite fish to see, either fishing or diving!

@@wunderglass777 I was too busy unhooking her without losing my hands!

@@egld2020 I’m not saying they’re smart, but I do believe there are dumber fish out there…

@@BigJonesFL it’s a bit more emotional when you see it in real life as opposed to on RUclips.

@@ShowTheReal nope, totally different kind of fish. These are the largest of the Flatfish and Flounder.

@@uncletiggermclaren7592 and 131.5 Kilos!

@@AlaskaWhaleanddronetours :) Yeah, I gotta say, I never got a fish that big. Biggest one I got was a hammerhead shark which I didn't boat, because it was half the length of the cockle I was fishing out of.

@@uncletiggermclaren7592 nice! I count it as caught if you have it by the boat and released it!

@@AlaskaWhaleanddronetours I'm a Kiwi. Fly fish both salt and fresh. We have a fish called Kahawai here, look similar to a salmon except they are more round in cross section. It is one of the strongest fighting sports fish in the world size for size, great fun on a fly rod. Considerably more fun, fight harder and longer, than a similar sized salmon or trout. When they are feeding, they will take just about any fly that they see too, which makes the thing much easier..

@@hulihulichicken check out my other video of them around the shipwreck; it’s one wreck in a large area of no structure, so they’re all surrounding it!

@@wizzardofpaws2420 I’ve got lots more footage, I’m working on a video about how they catch salmon, and one about family connections!

@@wizzardofpaws2420 their intelligence and coordination is incredible.

Thank you for watching! I appreciate how you're able to watch both sides of this conflict and respect the remarkable animals involved!

These fish are incredible! 😬

Probably! It hooked them when they bit it, it's just amazing how many of them passed on biting it!

She was a beauty!

@@Settlingintoalaskaliving male Halibut don’t get very large, usually only about 50lbs and almost never over 100lbs. This fish was waaaaay too big to be a male!

@@shariwitt1977 you are very welcome, thank you for watching!

@@Joshua_Peller 🫡

@@Joshua_Peller thank you!

@@thatwannabeauthor977 thank you! They’re pretty remarkable creatures!

@@truewealth50 “biggest halibut ever caught on underwater camera” not “biggest halibut ever caught, on underwater camera” it’s the biggest halibut anyone’s ever filmed swimming around, not the biggest one ever period.

@@williamholden351 circle hooks are a beautiful thing! They get the lip almost every time.

@@kimbeewebb thank you for watching! I hope you check out some of my other videos and subscribe!

@@Severanka5164 true! While they were adults, they were not large ones, so teenagers seem just about right!