A woman from Fairbanks, Alaska, has taken the lead in the annual Valdez Halibut Derby with a catch last Friday that tipped the scale at 144.2 pounds. Melissa Hurd told Alaska’s News Source that the ...

Another big fish story has been reeled in, and this one ranks in the lore of David and Goliath. One of the hardest challenges for boat anglers is catching a giant halibut, but just imagine doing it ...

A GIANT fish that was alive when the Queen came to the throne 50 years ago will become the ultimate golden jubilee fish supper today. The halibut weighs 21-and-a-half stone, is 6ft high and is big ...

It was the only way Swedish fisherman Erik Axner could get a photograph with the biggest halibut of his fishing career, an estimated 222-pounder. Swedish fisherman Erik Axner battled a fish of a ...

As a fully paid-up monster of the deep, it should have swatted aside any angler with the temerity to try to catch it with a mere rod and line. But this record-breaking Atlantic halibut bit off more ...

A fishmonger was left stunned after he took delivery of a giant-sized 6ft halibut that tipped the scales at 12-stone. Campbell Mickel, 50, from Edinburgh, got the mammoth fish on Saturday and said it ...

The giant halibut was caught by the Dingle based vessel Emerald Dawn while engaged in deep water fishing trials for BIM west of Rockall last week. Weighing 180kgs, almost 400lbs, the massive fish has ...

An enormous halibut weighing in at a whopping 11 stone has been sold to a restaurant for almost £1000. Tipping the scales at 70kg, the rare halibut was line-caught in the deep waters of the North Sea ...

Dorset chefs who ordered a large halibut from a fishmongers were stunned when a monster halibut weighing a 22 stones was delivered. 20 July 2009 • 7:31am Chefs who ordered a large halibut from a ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... ANCHORAGE, Alaska—A Colorado man hauled in a 337-pound halibut that is easily the biggest catch in southcentral Alaska this season. The Anchorage Daily News ...

An angler who at first thought he was snagged on the bottom reeled in an extraordinarily massive halibut off Norway on Monday, but not without extreme difficulty. Christer Carlund was drift-fishing ...