Big fish, cold water
Hi
I'm a long time lurker first time poster. Thought to share a trip I've just been on up inside the Artic Circle in the North of Norway. I spent a week with a fishing guide up there in a beautiful part of Norway called Lofoten chasing big halibut and it didn't disappoint! Managed to land halibut most days with cod and coal fish thrown in as well to keep things interesting.
What an unreal sport fish halibut are! Incredibly powerful! I've tangled with my share of powerful fish before, big sambos, yellowtail king fish and trevally up north but these fish are something else! They use their massive slab sides to propel themselves on ridiculously powerful runs exerting huge pressure on your line. I was usually fishing with 2 setups at the same time and typically the biggest fish I hooked took the soft plastic I had on my light jig rod with only 30lb braid. This fish was estimated to be arounf the 100kg mark and was just unstoppable on that light gear. It took 200m of line before we could get the boat going to chase it. Then it just kept going I didn't manage to even slow it down before the line broke just before it spooled me 
. It was a lesson learnt don't bring a knife to a gun fight.
But all in all it was an awesome experience and something completely different to what we have back in WA.
Cheers
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sea-kem
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Just wow!
Just wow!
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Dale
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cool
Awesome catch.
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Just1morecast
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Awesome, great post! Welcome
Awesome, great post! Welcome
Forever learning with fishing
big john
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Awesome
Welcome to the forum OS. Great first post.
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dodgy
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Awesome. Definitely one on
Awesome. Definitely one on my to do list. A group of pommy guys I know do an annual trip up there chasing them landbased. Will tag along one year.
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Madmerv
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Good looking fish
Love the fish you caught but by looking at the gear your wearing...Mmmm
Love fishing but hate the cold.
Sometimes when the water is quiet, you can hear the fish laughing at you !
mullows
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Very very cool...pardon the
Very very cool...pardon the pun :-)
Cheers
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Walfootrot
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Now that looks like fun!
Now that looks like fun! great eating, but looks bloody cold
More drum lines, kill the bloody sharks!
opsrey
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Gezus , didn't know soft plastics got that big.
marlin gear makes for serious fishing. Nice post.
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Yup just yup
Yup just yup
OS
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Yeah they use seriously mega
Yeah they use seriously mega soft plastics up there!
I was using a 345g one mostly, with 25cm bodies and that was considered small, but the halibut eat them up like lollies. I was thinking big dhuies at home would gobble them up too!