Halibut, halibut, halibut, oooohh, you wonderfull creature!!

As a true norwegian I love fish as food, it can be prepeared in several ways and it`s way better than meat. I have just entered my house and I logged on to break the great news: Two great halibuts in one hour. Me and Aage went out for a couple of hours for some trolling, we decided on halibut. So we hooked some baits (coalfish) in Saltstraumen and set off to some nice and streamy parts of the fjord. earlyer we had a hot tip on where the herring was at theese days and we started trolling. 10 minutes in the fishing Aage lost the first fish on a shadjig, seemed to be a respectable size. We saw lots of clouds on the fishfinder and we continued on concentrating the fishing close by. Half an hour later Aage had contact with a great halibut on the baitrig, we had a speed about 3 miles. We was close to the shore so I was a bit busy manouvering the boat. 15 heavy minutes later there was a sweet, great conditioned halibut with the weight of 40lbs resting on the deck amoungst our feets. The fish took the bait at the depht of about 10 meeters. Two excited men carried on fishing and then 20 minutes on it was my turn. 14 meeters of water and the fish hit my shadjig like there was no tomorrow. My 100gr. jerkbait rod (Beastmaster) was pushed and bend to the limit the next 20 minutes, and it was in and out, out, out. Long and hard outruns, -halibut. 65lbs of flat fish came up to the surface. Today, there were no C&R. I guess I will put on some weight the next couple of days, but this is healthy food for hero`s and vikings. We had a couple of strikes the next hour but nothing that really hooked so we decided that we should head for home port to take care of the fish. THIGHT LINES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!