Hauling a Nice Set of Halibut! | Longlining in Alaska

[@EISAlaska]

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[@associatedblacksheepandmisfits]

Merry Xmas guys 😊

[@EISAlaska]

Merry Christmas!

[@kevinmaritz4519]

Thanks guys. Watching this was a great way for me to end Xmas day.

[@EISAlaska]

Glad to hear it! Hope you had a great Christmas day, too.

[@ericolin205]

Love your videos, hard to wait for another new one. I keep watching all the older videos over and over. Have a great holiday ! And keep the videos coming. I would love 2 or 3 per week!

[@EISAlaska]

We sure appreciate that, Eric! Thanks so much for your support. Happy Holidays!

[@johnduer7428]

As usual you are the best ones to watch for fishing long lines to get halibut. ❤❤. Merry Christmas to all of your family members. ❤🎉❤🎉

[@EISAlaska]

Thanks for the support! Merry Christmas!

[@farajibakari0407]

I have a great holiday with your video !

[@scottessery100]

5:00 I really like the explanations and learning about what you have to do

[@ErikCooperPhoto]

Spend enough time with you two each week, you’re officially my bro’s! Merry Christmas!

[@EISAlaska]

Have a Merry Christmas, Erik!

[@matthewb8229]

I'm so ready for crabbing videos! I can't wait!

[@EISAlaska]

Same! We are super excited!

[@yorkshireaquatics9537]

Just got back from a Holiday from Copenhagen to sit and watch this joy. Have a wonderful festive time with your families and may I wish you safe seafaring for the new year. HoHoHo❤

[@EISAlaska]

Happy holidays to you as well!

[@zedhead2864]

Love seeing you guys get into some decent fish! Merry Christmas to all!

[@EISAlaska]

Hope you have a Merry Christmas too, Zed!

[@Retired-nohurry]

Great job of overlaying info and providing explanations of your work and equipment.

[@EISAlaska]

Glad you liked it, we're always trying to improve the video quality.

[@deanflint2239]

I have enjoyed all your fishing videos this past year and hope 2025 is another great year for you folks. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

[@EISAlaska]

Thank you for your support, Dean! Merry Christmas to you!

[@scottessery100]

Merry Christmas everyone I hope you’re all had a lovely and safe time

[@EISAlaska]

Merry Christmas, Scott!

[@GoldVP...]

Merry Christmas family. Loved this year of Emerald Isle getting done, and the adventures of the water. God bless you all

[@EISAlaska]

Thanks Gold, and Merry Christmas to you! Looking forward to more adventure next year!

[@ruthandred]

Thanks for showing the entire process from batting and setting to icing them down. Another great video guys look forward to all of them.

[@EISAlaska]

Our pleasure! Glad you enjoyed.

[@larrycresse753]

Merry Christmas. Love watching you guys. Tell mom and T Merry Christmas 🎅 also. Now let's get some 🦀

[@EISAlaska]

Merry Christmas! We'll tell them, thanks Larry!

[@ricksayre9650]

Another great one guys. Merry Christmas to y’all and may God bless all of you.

[@EISAlaska]

Thanks for watching, Merry Christmas to you and yours, Rick!

[@stevelane5270]

Merry Christmas Len and Matt. I appreciate the explanations of your process along the way. Cheers!

[@EISAlaska]

Merry Christmas! Thanks for watching and we're glad you enjoyed the video!

[@AeRoSpaceman-1]

What a wonderful Christmas Eve video. Merry Christmas to the family of EIS. 🎄

[@EISAlaska]

Merry Christmas to you too!

[@francisaffolter3160]

Informative explanation how snarls and tangles happens on a long line set. Thank You. Vancouver, WA.

[@elwoodwatson9906]

I used to love being the one shoveling ice when we were shrimping. We always packed our halibut too. Sorry I missed the live stream was in and out of cell service in Nevada headed towards Quartzsite Arizona. Merry Christmas to you all, thanks for the enjoyment.

[@EISAlaska]

Merry Christmas to you too Elwood! Hope you have a fantastic day!

[@scottdilley356]

Nice grade oh and a very merry Christmas stay safe and keep the faith

[@bradsellnow3665]

Once again another great video enjoyed the education of the hold. Have a merry Christmas!😊

[@EISAlaska]

Merry Christmas, Brad!

[@cindydenton2681]

Merry Christmas our dear friends! Nice haul… May you continue to be blessed abundantly!

[@EISAlaska]

Merry Christmas to you Cindy and Dave! Hope you guys have a wonderful day!

[@keyup2626]

Another epic video. Merry Christmas to you all.

[@EISAlaska]

Happy holidays, Keyup!

[@kathrynwoodard3933]

Mary Christmas 🎄 to you and your family 😊

[@EISAlaska]

Happy holidays, Kathy!

[@Opaulo888]

Merry Christmas to you and your family. What a good catch.

[@EISAlaska]

Merry Christmas! Hope you guys have a great one!

[@geneporter4849]

Merry merry Christmas and happy new year from down here on the Gulf Cost of Florida and south Alabama God Bless Y’all

[@EISAlaska]

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you too, Gene!

[@scottdilley356]

This made my Christmas eve special thanks

[@EISAlaska]

Thank you, Scott! Hope you have a wonderful Christmas eve and Christmas day!

[@tonyjones9715]

Another great video. Thanks. I hope you all have a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

[@EISAlaska]

Merry Christmas, Tony!

[@wranther]

Hope you all have yoursel a very fine and safe Merry Christmas!!

[@EISAlaska]

Merry Christmas to you too, we hope you have a safe and happy holiday season!

[@derekwiffen1115]

Nice to see a good catch again hope your having a great Christmas.

[@EISAlaska]

Thanks for watching, Merry Christmas to you!

[@calvincareen7609]

Merry Christmas you two 🇨🇦🙂

[@EISAlaska]

Merry Christmas!

[@andrewdiges8652]

Merry Christmas guys!!!!

[@EISAlaska]

Merry Christmas!

[@RobertHuesman-y8y]

Love the new format, late O tober....also camera angles.

[@EISAlaska]

Thanks! We're trying to get some different angles. More to come next season! Happy holidays, Robert!

[@scottdilley356]

Im sorry but I do have a complaint. Hey id sit and watch this all day from breakfast to dinner there to short lol I can wait for crab season

[@christianlothe7033]

superbe pêche dommage d'avoir autant de rayes et de requins merci pour ces images magnifiques joyeux noël a vous et toute votre famille

[@Philthefish47]

Merry Christmas to you all

[@EISAlaska]

Merry Christmas, Phil!

[@anniebooo]

Merry Christmas from Western Australia! Fab storytelling in this video, love the multiple angles and takes. All the best to you and your family. I grew up in Scandinavia and miss the steamed halibut, but we have got fantastic fish here as well. We had 112 F the other day, Xmas in WA. All the best! Annie

[@EISAlaska]

Merry Christmas Annie! We are happy you enjoyed the video! We really appreciate the kind words. Steamed fish is delicious, nice and moist. Hope you all have a Merry Christmas!

[@sprkmn]

you guys rock

[@MartinKarlsson-ot8dq]

Nice catch!

[@omrjordan4847]

A blessed Christmas to everyone.

[@EISAlaska]

Merry Christmas, Omr!

[@MyPancho1]

Beautiful weather nice

[@EISAlaska]

It was indeed! Doesn’t get much better than this.

[@youwillike]

Merry Christmas to you and yours this holiday season. Never knew dads name until now lol.

[@EISAlaska]

Merry Christmas! We're trying to do better about introductions, haha! Thanks for commenting, have a wonderful day!

[@roncarby7409]

Merry Christmas to all your family from Ron in Caloundra Queensland Australia , thanks for your you tube videos, they allow me to join in activities my poor health no longer let me do myself ,Ron.

[@EISAlaska]

Thanks for watching, Ron. We are honored to be able to share these experiences with you. We couldn't do it without you and all our wonderful viewers! Best wishes for a great New Year!

[@johnpierce1251]

Merry Christmas my friends may you and your family be blessed with amazing hauls and good health ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@EISAlaska]

Merry Christmas to you too! Best wishes to you and your loved ones.

[@johnpierce1251]

@ thank you

[@JonathanRodriguez-yf1vi]

good morning good morning hopefully Big size halibuts for the season 🐠🐟

[@EISAlaska]

It was spotty throughout the season, sometimes you get 'em sometimes not. Sure is nice when they grade is there!

[@rkins100]

Love watching you pull in the halibut (no skates ;-)) We just cooked and ate a chunk of the Halibut we received from you a few months ago - so good. We have Flounder (a cousin) but nothing that big or thick. Our cook ended up wonderful and we still have about 10 lbs to enjoy. Thanks from Florida.

[@EISAlaska]

Thank you! I always puts a smile on our faces when we hear back from our customers. You guys are the reason we direct market our catch. Best wishes from the whole crew for a wonderful New Year!

[@CathyLukon]

Wow, over 30 skates in that set. But, it was also the best grade I have seen you pull--I got an average of 45.6 pounds! Nice work!

[@EISAlaska]

They were some beautiful halibut. The sure clean up quick with that kind of grade.

[@mattdonner3503]

I'm glad dad finally got a name😂

[@apogumilar-bl2il]

Hi guys..Love your videos and love from Indonesian 🇮🇩😊😊

[@EISAlaska]

Thanks!

[@sandtowalk]

Love you guys Merry Christmas God Bless Thank You

[@EISAlaska]

Merry Christmas, Sand!

[@michaelwoods3768]

Merry Christmas to your family!

[@EISAlaska]

Merry Christmas to you too!

[@simonrussell6884]

Nice hook throw dude…..careful of those big seas

[@EISAlaska]

Thanks, I reckon ol’ Sig might be proud of me with that one. 😂

[@williamsnapp2605]

Merry Christmas Family!!

[@EISAlaska]

Hope you have a great Christmas, william!

[@johnnypurkey7545]

Ye did good this time 😊

[@stevenhead7560]

Merry Christmas guys

[@EISAlaska]

Merry Christmas, Steven!

[@debbiesue4287]

Great video ❤ Merry Christmas Everyone!!

[@EISAlaska]

Merry Christmas, Debbie! We opened up your package last night, you guys are so thoughtful. The pictures and story of your trip were so special, thank you so much for sharing that! We'll sure enjoy the goodies and the ornament is very cute! We hope you guys have a wonderful Christmas!

[@mattdonner3503]

I've been watching for a long long and I don't think I've ever head your name

[@philmccumbee6938]

Some nice Hali’s. Keep up the good work and may your patreon account continue to grow.

[@EISAlaska]

Thank you, Phil!

[@arthurcitron9774]

Spot on!👊🏻🇺🇸

[@scottdilley356]

Thank you for showing below deck I worked on a ice bout a and freezer boat at that my captain checking i was filling the belly with ice but only once after that he new i did my best lol

[@steenhoffmann4259]

Marry Christmas from Misery Bay 🎄

[@EISAlaska]

Merry Christmas, Steen!

[@josephmaschari1073]

Merry Christmas

[@EISAlaska]

Merry Christmas!

[@kittygreenleaf427]

Merry Christmas and the happiest of New Year’s to you all. I absolutely adore this channel and wanted to ask if there was any way possible that we could get an hour and a half or two hour video? I hate it when I’m done watching one and wishing it could’ve been longer. If you can, that would be awesome thank you so much for all your hard work and bringing us along

[@EISAlaska]

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. We will see what we can come up with, but afraid we would run out of footage or only be able to get a video out once a week or every 10 days or so. A lot of work goes into editing so it would really slow down our releases. Perhaps we will do more of a raw video for the next one, a full set of pulling halibut gear. We sure appeciate your support and ideas.

[@kittygreenleaf427]

@ thank you so much. Even a raw video would be absolutely brilliant. Whatever you can do would definitely be appreciated.

[@captng]

Got to handle it to you fellas obviously I'm not a fisherman and I've never known or seen a skate before but you guys should be a lot of them... I was waiting for the proverbial kitchen sink to come up with those suckers

[@johnpierce1251]

Ya know if there was a market for skates dog fish and star fish you’d have a fleet of new fishing boats lol

[@pattiwhalen9851]

Merry christmass ya all😅

[@joemachismo6594]

Looks like they need to do a skate season if theyre worth eating.

[@Mal-u-Envy]

You guys should fish for Skates ane settle for Hallibut lol 😂 those Skate seem soooo overfished lmao

[@deanyates4891]

Just a thought but wouldn't it be easier to have a permanent ruler on the deck. Great video btw, so many huge skate.

[@EISAlaska]

For sure! We'll likely attach it somewhere in the future. Although we found out later its kind of nice to measure from either side of the reel, so maybe a modular ruler isn't too bad.

[@Scottb92768]

I really do enjoy all of y'all's videos thank you very much.i am just wondering why you don't throw the old bait out for the birds,or does it cause a issue and make them keep coming back and make a issue as in them all over you while you are trying to haul? Just a question I don't think anyone else has asked.but I do throw out my bait after I am done witch it's just a lake but never thought it would hurt anything or does it .I may have been doing something wrong all of these 50 years by throwing out old bait.lol but anyways just wondering but thank you again for the great video and wish y'all nothing but the best

[@EISAlaska]

It’s a good question, Scott! Theres no reason we don’t, sometimes when we’re bored we’ll toss it out to them to see their antics. In this case I suppose we were just focusing on work. The seagulls act skittish at times also so we’d have to chuck it out a ways. Have a Merry Christmas!

[@Scottb92768]

@EISAlaska Merry Christmas to you and your family.i do know that seagulls do get annoying cuz when I go to Tampa Florida that always are just so annoying lol they will come down and take a sandwich right out of your hand even if you are eating it lol.but thanks for answering back

[@bertppichon2684]

Would a cattle prod work on a big fish to shut it down for easier handling?

[@EISAlaska]

It probably would, hate to see it go off on one of us tho. Might be lights out!

[@themanconan1]

do you ever use fishing poles while waiting on lines to soak?

[@EISAlaska]

Nah, not at all. Though it would be a fun time filler.

[@gilbertoemaeleuterio4954]

Very Niçe Merry christ

[@EISAlaska]

Merry Christmas!

[@petermoss4824]

Great stuff! I fished alot in Florida. But I ain't crawling down into that fishbox.......😮

[@billharriss5412]

Just curious what the skates go for per pound compared to halibut. And do they have a season? Seems like they are plentiful

[@EISAlaska]

They are bycatch only, in this case 5% weight of target species, not worth dealing with. Last one we delivered year ago, they were $0.25/lb.

[@scottdilley356]

Lol look at my remarks are before you told us thanks again

[@rodfair5698]

Question, what is wrong with skate? Also can you show us in close view, how you use that hooky thing to get fishhooks out of the fish. Merry Christmas and thanks.

[@EISAlaska]

Yep, we’ll show that close up next season! Didn’t get a chance this time I don’t think.

[@ColinLennard]

A Question: Why do you store the halibut upside down (white side up)? Thanks see you next time.

[@EISAlaska]

Good question Colin, it’s so that any remaining blood doesn’t pool up on the white side and give it an off color and also something we do out of habit.

[@ColinLennard]

@@EISAlaska Thanks for that bit of information. Turning the fish is that standard for all halibut fishing or is that just something that you have learnt & just do it like you say?

[@TULUSRECORD]

Good

[@yogihartmann8562]

How often do you get checked by fish and game or Coastguard?

[@martygrove3986]

Is it worth it to lease quota when the a good haul of Halibut is ca. 500 lb and average hauls are 200 lb. or less? Is the lease for a set rate or a proportion of the catch total?

[@EISAlaska]

It's probably worth it for us since its our boat and just our family as crew. With a more expensive operation, probably get pretty skinny.

[@jimgo49]

Are you able to shut down your genset while fishing?

[@EISAlaska]

Yep we can. We kept it running for the heaters and Starlink.

[@akdonlh9924]

How much do you guys get per pound? Merry Christmas and and have a safe and prosperous new year

[@EISAlaska]

Price was pretty steady here this year. $5.00- $5.75 pound. Thats IFQ weight which is head off/ gutted.

[@stevedavidson8802]

I love how you recognize the patrons, but for me, it would probably be easier if they were in alphabetical order

[@zerog5041]

Hi guys, over the years I've been watching you I've often wondered why you don't occasionally swap from Halibut to Skate for your main catch, seems that Skate are more abundant on your grounds? Also Len should have a Depth Finder repeater screen up by the controls where you land the fish - save going in and out?

[@EISAlaska]

Currently there is no directed fishery for skate. The bycatch rate for skates used to be 20% but was reduced to 5% a few years back due to overharvest concerns. I would say the resource is doing well! At some point I will mount a monitor outside. Then I can see our position and depth, also make marks when we hit good fishing.

[@paulmerchant3379]

Why don't you use a swivel to stop the twisting?

[@EISAlaska]

We do have swiveled gear, but only about 25% of the hooks so far. We're working towards upgrading them all as we go.

[@johnpierce1251]

I have two spiny dog fish and guess were they are from ….Emerald Isle North Carolina lol

[@isickofit]

When you fish the skatepark..

[@EISAlaska]

True! Too many skaters!

[@Mehmet-v4t6l]

👍

[@niallocallaghan5883]

Hello guys happy Christmas and happy new year to all ye guys, still not happy with the camera angle cos it shows 1 third of the boat, just move the camera in front of ye and then we can see the hole back of the boat and what ye do best instead we can't see much, stay safe guys love ye Niall from lreland

[@EISAlaska]

We really appreciate the feedback! I wasn't entirely happy with the side shot camera angle either. Always striving to improve as we go on!

[@chrisgilbert2152]

do you have to clean the fish? Do you get more money for clean one?

[@scottessery100]

21:50 looks like they’ should increase 📈 bycatch to 10% … are figures ever reviewed?

[@Maryammujittapha]

crabbing videos!

[@charlielang1704]

How much 3A do you guys have? Man I hate longlining with hooks. Pots are so much easier. Slinkies are a gong shoe in my opinion

[@Untamedlove]

Crab Season separates the MEN from the Boys ....

[@MaryAlexander-o2n]

Butterball Halibut? Is there different kinds of Halibut? Or you just call them that cause they are "fat" and healthy? Love watching you guys at work. Merry Christmas and all the best in 2025 from Ontario Canada ☃️🌲🧑‍🎄

[@EISAlaska]

Exactly that! Nice chunky halibut! Have a Merry Christmas!

[@christophwalther7462]

What are you doing with the small sharks? They from time to time desapearing in your videos?

[@EISAlaska]

Nothing, just shaking them back into the water. Theres no market value here and they’re not worth baiting.

[@isickofit]

100,000 next year.

[@EISAlaska]

Hope so! Here's to 2025!