Never heard that one before

Coool...

How does that work???

I dont believe anyone said it was or wasn't... Besides untill recently it has been proper english to apply the masculine... "him or he" when a gender is unknown or unspecified... at least thats what I was taught in the good ole days...

Not being a marine biologist and all wouldn't it take both a male and female to make babies...

So does it really matter if it was him or her....

Thats one less big fish in the gene pool...

kinda like bonking a big ole 25# steely buck...

Does every friggin thread have to turn into a political or moral discussion??

It was a big damn fish and is cool to see.

Yup!

Ray-finned fish such as rock fish get the benze and die when you pulled them up from the deep.
Salmon, dogfish, halibut, etc... do not express this sympthom.
Why... is another topic.

She or he is not relevant because they both reproduce. But don't you agree that larger males have better luck with large females compared to smaller males.

It aint the size, but the cute little way they - aah never mind!

right awn HookNose...no [Bleeeeep!]

Thank you Cowlitzfisherman for taking the time ot post the info on the Halibut. Very interesting

Paul

What a halibut....be that fish is gonna have some grainy meat.

Cowlitz,

If you delve into your research just a tad deeper you'll find that pretty much ALL large halibut (say over 150lbs. or so) are female.

from the NOAA site:

"The Pacific halibut is the largest flatfish known, with females living 40 years or more and reaching 2.5 m and 300 kg. Males are smaller (1.5 m) and have shorter maximum life spans, near 25 years. Spawning occurs during the winter in deep water (180-450 m) along the continental slope at a number of well known locations in the Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands, and Gulf of Alaska south to British Columbia. Females spawn repeatedly over the season, producing as many as 2 million eggs.


Hooknose,

Nobody's denying that the halibut in the pic is a very impressive sight. We were just expressing a touch of sadness and concern that a rare specimen so large as this one is now relegated to probably being wasted because it's meat is pretty much worthless.

If the commercials hadn't killed it, she would have continued to grow and potentially produced thousands of baby halibut.

Yep, 99.99999% chance i was a female. A follow-up article in the paper today ... the fish was never weighed, so the true weight will never be known.


http://www.adn.com/alaska/story/3901952p-3924988c.html

4Salt, I understand that.

It is just getting ridiculous that so many threads are being highjacked and turned into some big political or moral discussion.

Heaven help me if I post a picture of my daughter with the 20 lb chum she got last year....

I hear ya! Hopefully we haven't yet reached the point where a pic of your daughter holding a large chum will incite the kind of controversy we've seen lately, but I guess you never know.

p.s. Howdy neighbor! We seem to have more than a few members residing in Lynnwood.

WOW!!! in the immortal words of that great Seattle fisherman Sir Mix Alot

"I like big butts...."

Yeah, all the cool people live in Lynnwood...

Well, at least some of the cool people live in Lynnwood...

Alright, only a few cool people live in Lynnwood. We are the one's without the big hair and blue eye shadow.

I have seen some big ones in my comercial day but never one that big.That thing is huge.

I had to through one over board once that measured a rough 86 inches.That fish about knocked me out slapping me with its tail.It went nuts as we were trying to get it up a stairway and off the boat.Everybody thought it was funny but me

Kinda sad that they take so long to grow into proficient egg producers and yet are allowed to be taken....... I have to wonder how old a fish like that is.....

MC

When it is relavent to a moral issue.... Yes....

There are those that think a beheading would be cool to see.... Doesn't mean that it would be right....
Usually, the large 'Butts like that are female, as is the case with many bottom feeders (sturgeon, Lings, etc..). Probably was a female, but those guys look like commercials and they look at something like that only in terms of poundage and $$..... Attitudes such as that when it comes to monster fish are why the 1500lb Marlins are nearly a thing of the past.....

MC

No, now THAT would impress the hell out of me and bring a BIG smile to my face! Post it, please!

MC

Here's a couple of pics of her chum from last November. You gotta love the look on her face in the first one.

Great pictures hooknose!

Cowlitzfisherman