Only my fish nerd friend could have found this video and shared it with me. I mean, the swaths of lingcod and anemone forests and just otherworldly. It’s like these areas and the ones I dive in can’t possibly be part of the same ocean

Thank you for your research and work. Fishing for these species is a past time for my family and I. And I want it to last for many generations to come.

Almost 50 years ago I lived in Alaska. The minimum size for a keeper halibut was 32”. We fished for fun on Saturday and caught tons of lingcod but threw them all back. We just wanted a halibut. Now the halibut are rare and the cod even more overpopulated! To restore the balance of nature we need to eat more lingcod!

The China Rockfish at 4:35 is actually a Quillback Rockfish. (Sebastes Maliger)

This video is amazing, Because it shows you how often they swim up off the bottom and don't always just sit in the sand somewhere.

I have never seen so many lingcod. That is amazing!

This is possibly the best halibut channel on KZfaq!

This is cool! Felt like a kid again. Thank you for your hard R/D

can you add the gps co-ordinates? just for scientific purpose not cuz I want a shot at those lings

Those lingcod stacked up like Lincoln logs..never would have guessed that they gather in such large numbers. Where I've caught them their flesh is a soft turquoise to a deep turquoise. Some are kinda greenish. All are delicious.

very cool video! I'm pretty sure the rockfish @4:35 is a Quillback though, not a China

Holy Mother of Lingcod. Lingcodopolous. Did the lings make their annual pilgrimage to Lingcod Mecca? Where is this magical place?!?!?

Damn all of the good tasting fish are living on some alien planet in the ocean.

I've dived on the west coast and never so many lingcod in one place. Crazy!

The Lost City of Ling!

I was gunna say the same thing. Definitely a quillback.

Ive been watching enough videos about the ocean that this showed up in my recommended

That reef is infested with Lingcod . They do have egg nests , though they migrate to shallow where I’m at . You can know where they are , but the period of the bite is short each day . We’ve caught them with a few hundred salmon smolt inside as well as other Lingcod of EQUAL size , folded in half! The Halibut is a mighty foe , they will eat Octopus.

Why did you go all the way down there? Oh, just for the halibut.

So that's where cauliflower comes from!!! Just kidding. Thanks for a fascinating trip. BTW, the columnar basalt was formed back when this part of the crust was a basaltic flood plain on land.

9:40 the halibut's friends will never believe the story about the UFO

That's a hell-of-a-butt!

Five Halibut and 1 million Lings! That is by far the most Ling cod that I have ever seen and most looked large. Wouldn't there be more Flatfish around a less rocky area?? Lingmania!

Pretty neat how the pacific halibut basically turned its pectoral fin into a dorsal fin.

Was this clip about halibut or lingcod?

I watched this video just for the halibut 😂😂😂

It’s so strange that I love eating halibut, but this is the first time I’m seeing a halibut.

Have to admit I was very surprised to see a halibut in those rocks.

Question: how much does a first grader weigh? Wouldn’t it be easier to just say how much a halibut could weigh?

So was this about halibut or lingcod? Seen five halibut, three hundred lingcod!

What's your coordinates? Best Ling spot ever!

I'm tagging my self as the friend that still can't catch a fish 😂😂

11 minutes of flatfish! I'm in! Just for the halibut!

I watched this video just for the Halibut

What are the GPS coordinates of this location?

You still got those coordinates? For research purposes only

Wow! So many Ling cod down there. Is it their mating season or something?

That's sooo cool

The amount of Lingcod is insane!!!

I have never seen so many lings in my life. Nothing even comparable to this. Why are they schooled up like that?

Very interesting. Please go back and look again at the rockfish that you labeled a “China Rockfish”. I do not see the distinctive yellow stripe of a china rockfish. The broad light colored dorsal spine markings and the height of the dorsal spines look more to me like that of a Quillback rockfish. I am not a scientist or an expert in any way and I understand that identifying markings can vary amongst specific varieties, I am just a fisherman who has caught many China rockfish.

So they can get as long as a car, that I follow. But how much do 10 first graders weigh?

What happens to a fish that is at 450-500' depth and you just yank it straight up to the surface with all the change in pressure, all within a minute or two? Do they go through the fish equivalent of the bends? I've been halibut fishing and when they're finally on the boat, it's not a pleasant end. I imagine being clubbed to on TOP of an immediate pressure change of 15 atmospheres. Not a good day.

that deep water white coral looks like undewater mushroms

Nothing like a random bathroom lesson on halibut

Halibut can and do live from 200-3500 feet. Blinding fish in the depths with lasers. What fun.

Bowie Seamount, west of Queen Charlotte islands is like that!

11 years later on the algorithm

People really commenting on an 11 year video asking them to change the text 😂😂

Wonder if the fish population at this same spot survived the human onslaught?

I thought lingcod was a fresh water fish. Caught a lot of them ice fishing in Montana.

4:35 appears to be a quillback rockfish and not a china

Anyone know what the small orange fish are?

Oh my God. Fish tacos everywhere!

That's a lot o flings!!!

There’s the Sea Mushrooms, Sea Cauliflower and Sea Lettuce

I went deep sea fishing once. Just for the Halibut.....

how much do 10 first graders weigh?

That rockfish was a quillback not a China rockfish

What is with the laser beams?

But is good but I about ent nuts seeing all those Ling Cod!!!!

I found the China rockfish at 7:35

Change the title of the video to: 35,000 lingcod and 5 halibut

Small fish don't have a chance down there.

After they're done with south east asia seas, Chinese fishermen wants to know this location.

I didn’t know lingcod hang out with cauliflower

I don't think ling cod are that good to eat?

I think we can have more lingcod for dinner 😅

Holy Lingcod!

3 halibut. 1161 lingcod. Not bad for a "halibut video"

Who new the official measurement of halibut is first graders! Look at this one, it's weigh's almost 10 first graders

Sorry but that first rockfish is a Quillback, not a China.

H&M landing winter time half day boat. This is what you'll catch.

Put the drone sub in front of a bottom trawler so we can see what that looks like.

Stranger comparison with a full grown halibut and 10 first graders ? 🤔

Why the sound effect at 1:12 lmao

Cauliflower growing in the sea 🤣😂

Looks like sea shrooms 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 yes please

use to be 30 fifth graders.

That is a magnificent breeding ground for Lincod. This is the spot fishermen would guard with their life.

how deep?

If the halibut are still in great numbers then we aren't fishing them hard enough. When they start to go the way of the Yukon king salmon then we know we're headed in the right direction. Humans will ALWAYS take more than the system can handle and examples of that claim are abundant world wide.

I sent you a halibut you never hali’ed back

those sea mushrooms edible? don't let the asians know about em..

Shoulda brought a harpoon and a gaff with ya

Boooo! If they would have just titled this about Ling Cod it would have been a good video. Very little content about halibut.

ling city

Lingcod tastes way better than halibut.....I'll take a lingcod anyday over halibut....

Lingcod must not be good to eat.

This video is clickbait! Been watching for 4:30 now and haven’t seen one full grown halibut yet! Smh

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1 halibut in 5 mins, clickbait trash