In May of 1998 I went on a fishing trip to Alaska with my ex wife and my parents.We stayed here http://www.growleybear.com/. We were fishing for king salmon. We had our own boat and captain. The limit was 7 per day and we caught limit every day(5 days). After we caught the limit on the salmon, we would go halibut fishing. We caught a bunch of those as well . Once we hooked one we never lost one, the captain of the charter we had must have had extra sharp hooks or something. At one time all 4 of us had a salmon on the hook. We were going around and under each other for about 10-15 minutes. They put up a hell of a fight. I think the biggest we caught weighed in at 46 pounds if memory serves. Most of the others were in the 35-40 pound range. We took home coolers of flash frozen salmon and halibut.
As soon as we arrived at the dock, the captain would fillet every fish and there was a girl who took them to be flash frozen. I was eating it for over a year. We even caught some Albino salmon where the meat is totally white. At one point in the fishing my ex hooked a sea lion, I have never seen anything so fast. The captain jumped to cut the line before he lost his pole. There was no way she would have been able to hold it once the line ran out.
Unfortunately my dad died a month later unexpectedly so that trip will forever be special.
