Halibut biting in Seward

I took a little time out to go fishing these past couple days, in Seward, which is my favorite honey hole for Pacific halibut. My son is home visiting on a two week leave from the Army, so we packed up the motorhome and headed down for a couple of days. Our wives and the granddaughter took a day cruise to view marine wildlife and glaciers while we went fishing.

Our boatload of five fishermen limited out on halibut, two apiece. Tony Tapia of Rosamond, Calif., shown here, hauled in the biggest fish of the day--an even 100 pounds when we got it back to the dock a couple of hours later. Besides the limit of halibut we hauled in a number of cod and ling cod as well. All the lings had to be thrown back because season doesn't open until July 1. Throwing back a four-foot-long fish is enough to make some people cry.