Whoa. Awesome fish, Ryley!

I think that fillet alone is still about 5X bigger than any 'butt I've ever landed.

Never seen a PS 'butt, let alone hook one, but I did get to witness "something" yesterday that inhaled a 6-ounce jig, made a headshake, and snapped the line in about that fast. Right afterwards, Rico started swearing and saying something on the lines of "I knew I should have used a wire leader on that jig......"

Gotta love fishing with RVRRico! Heard lots of great stories about Toff, too.

I still don't think there are halibut in Puget Sound. I was just happy that the North River I was in was fully operational and that the motor didn't die on us.

Nice that you got to pull your Kimber on that 'butt. It would have never even dawned on me to bring it out yesterday.....not to mention that our boat didn't even have a gaff.