Me and my buddies Dwayne and Tom caught these halibut off the Aquarius in the 1995 halibut derby. Tom and I had 15 pounders, Dwayne’s fish were about 10 pounds apiece.
 
Halibut, 28 and 12 lbs., taken aboard the Aquarius off the southern Ventura County coastline.
 

My biggest flattie to date, at 38 pounds.

It’s a real challenge to pull a fish this size to the surface on 15 pound line-- unlike most other fish, it’s heavier than the water, so you’re working against its weight as well as its swimming and head-shaking.

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