I agree AuntyM, keeping the rule in place for halibut was stupid. The state sportfishing advisory council thinks it is stupid too.

Even if it were to happen that someone did accidentally catch a salmon when halibut fishing, who cares, just let the fish go. The point is that your not going to find people fishing for halibut with a 6 ft rod and 2 pounds of weight. The only reason that I can see this being applied to halibut is that trolling for halibut with downriggers has gained some popularity. But they could have easily made the rule applicable to all downrigger fishing and left halibut out of it.