Thanks for the welcome glad to be here. Worked on a freighter in early 90s that supplied western Alaska and our cook was named Hooker who liked to sportfish halibut. The story Hooker told was the year before he was out west in the Aleutians a bay called Unatalik fishing out of a small skiff. Hooker caught a halibut and when he reeled it in it was longer than the skiff and not cooperating. Hooker took out his 45 and shot several rounds in the halibut's head. This fish would have been a world record sport caught halibut until he added lead as it was over 420lbs and the size of a garage door. Hooker was able to tow the fish over to an anchored fish processing vessel and they used their crane to haul it aboard. A picture of Hooker and the halibut made the front page of a Seattle newspaper.