Halibut, which look like flounder but bigger, can grow to some impressive sizes. One look at the Valdez Halibut Derby, which ...

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 ...

The Valdez Halibut Derby record, set in 2017, stands at 374 pounds. For comparison, the all-tackle world record for Pacific halibut stands at 459 pounds. That behemoth was caught out of Dutch ...