monster Whitby halibut

[Charlton]

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[Kev1n]

That is a monster, it must take a long time to grow to that size.

[cod father]

Good god its a stonker that one

[paul.longstaff]

the boats been working around sixty miles off the tyne the last couple of weeks.

[Charlton]

anybody know how heavy the monster was

[Russ hud]

Don't know how accurate Alan, but few lads on Whitby sites suggesting it was around 200lb

[Charlton]

Don't know how accurate Alan, but few lads on Whitby sites suggesting it was around 200lb

cheers

[Scotty91]

Hade one last year my self from tynemouth was around 5ft long and was around 100lb

[Wasabi]

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They make it sound as if this halibut was caught just of Whitby pier !!

It was on a big trawler and could have been caught in the high sea nowhere near home.