With a deadline fast approaching on a federal plan to reduce the number of fish allocated to Alaska halibut charter businesses and hand them over to commercial fishermen, a handful of state ...

Fishing derbies are like the lottery in that you can’t win unless you enter. Lorna Illingworth, for example, caught a 158-pound halibut last weekend while fishing during the “Halibut Hullabaloo” out ...

Headed and gutted halibut are displayed on ice and for sale on Oct. 3, 2023, at New Sagaya Midtown Market in Anchorage. (Photo by Yereth Rosen/Alaska Beacon) A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit ...

We have the whole Thundermist gang out fishing for halibut here in Peterborough Alaska. We're running the 120lb T-Turn Bait Rig to keep us tangle-free, with a SS40 Viper Spoon to give our bait some ...

ANCHORAGE — What might be the largest Pacific halibut ever documented was pulled from the Bering Sea off St. Paul Island on Sept. 5 by the crew of the fishing boat Miss Mary. The 8-foot, 2-inch ...