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  • I'm stuck on a remote island on the edge of Alaska on the trail of a giant Pacific halibut.

  • Strong winds, freezing temperatures and relentless fog have stopped me getting out to sea for three days.

  • My only hope is a line cast from the shore.

  • I was wanting to find the line absolutely taught into the water.

  • But slack means there's nothing there.

  • Fishing from the shore isn't working.

  • No bait.

  • What do you think that waas the next morning brings no better news?

  • Come on, get out.

  • Today the boat won't go out.

  • Another day of poor visibility and high winds means it's still too dangerous to head out in the inflatable boat by making no progress.

  • I've got to leave this island, but it's not safe to fly in this weather.

  • I was originally sold this plane.

  • They're just being dumped here, but it turns out there's a bit more to the story than that.

  • This was trying to take off Andi.

  • It was hit by a cross wind gusts, so it basically came back down onto the runway.

  • The right landing gear poked through the wing.

  • The propeller got chewed up on the ground.

  • Basically, they just decided rather than fix it, just just tow it out of the way Set The motor's taken out the instruments or like on the stuff.

  • And it is now just here as a reminder of how important it is to respect the weather and not to fly when the conditions are sketchy.

  • Talking to people here very telling me people.

  • So I always get stuck here for three weeks.

  • I think the record is five weeks.

  • There's no way I can afford to be stuck here for that amount of time.

  • Hello?

  • You wouldn't become raised in here.

  • It doesn't.

  • Why?

  • That was Let tradition says our tradition.

  • If you get new people on the island gonna rain the washer for footprints.

  • So that's why I've come too far to give up.

  • But the fog isn't budging.

  • I've got to fish somewhere else by here.

  • Conditions are better on the other side of the illusion chain.

  • I just need to figure out how to get that.

  • Okay, where does it come in?

  • Is it down?

  • Just all right.

  • And what time you're expecting it?

  • Roughly.

  • It looks like I could be leaving.

  • There is a helicopter on its way left us are about half an hour ago should be here within the hour.

  • Still not good enough conditions for the mail plane to come in.

  • The reason we're doing this is because in reality, it's not just me.

  • There is a crew of us here.

  • Just get in the getting stuff ready.

  • Just get in the ER The minimum amount of stuff that we can get with three of us on the helicopter flying in this weather will use up more fuel.

  • So to be safe, we're leaving some gear behind It sounds that should be the hard part.

  • In this extreme fog.

  • The helicopter must fly low to maintain visibility.

  • I'm at the other end of the Illusions chain south of the Alaskan mainland.

  • The weather here couldn't be more different.

  • Yet it's the same ocean, the same currents, the same marine life.

  • If giant halibut is still in these waters, this place is my last chance to find one away from the howling winds and on a sturdy a fishing boat, it's back to rod on line two fish the way I know best.

  • Goto.

  • It's no different fields started running, running, running, running, running.

  • Oh, yes, Yes, yes, yes, it's bigger.

  • Certainly pulling Holder.

  • Come on, Bart.

  • I think I can safely cancel my gym membership Quite reduced to tears, but sweating going on.

  • I'm revising my estimate upwards.

  • This is pretty big way.

  • So see this one They're going to see in a second.

  • It's big.

  • It's a halibut, and it's a good one.

  • See if this will come on.

  • The boat wants a look at this, and I want to release it.

  • Normally, those two things are incompatible.

  • Thes giants have been known to break limbs with their thrashing.

  • Normally there gaffed, harpooned or shot before being brought in doing the tail on the strength of it.

  • Even when its propulsion unit is, uh, supposedly immobilize Open the door, then recognized.

  • Bring it on, boy to me.

  • I'm right.

  • It's biting me on.

  • Here we go, Here we go.

  • Here we go.

  • Here we go.

  • Here we go.

  • Here we go.

  • Way Go on.

  • If you could support, that will shift my grip.

  • Now here it's £100 of solid muscle, Just about manageable in the boat.

  • They're definitely here A big old mouth something.

  • This is such a efficient predator.

  • I want to take some time to marvel at this monster of the deep.

  • But it's so strong.

  • Yeah, I'm gonna want to hear the whole shit.

  • I just know that I can't hold it.

  • Hold it.

  • I got, um I think this might just go straight up the side.

  • I can't sit with this on my new go ahead.

  • People come out of there.

  • Uh, that's one of the few times I've been beaten up by a fish.

  • I was trying to get it to pose nicely, but there they call it ill manners, Halibut.

I'm stuck on a remote island on the edge of Alaska on the trail of a giant Pacific halibut.

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