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(03-27-2013 22:20)davidmbrady Wrote:  You're a wild man George. Tell us about landing that Halibut! And, how much of a grass strip do you need to get air in that bush plane? Paradise, simply paradise... Thanks for the pics!

The halibut weighed 246 lbs. and was the first halibut I had ever caught. It was like dragging up a bucket of concrete. We got it to the surface twice and shot it in the head and it would go back down. We "D" ringed it (put a rope through it's mouth and out through the gills and around the tail and pulled it up in a loop) before we tried to get it in the boat as a tail swipe can break a man's leg. The second halibut I caught was 96 lbs. and all I have been doing since then is lowering my average.

The airplane is a Maule M6 that I had custom built at the factory in Moultrie, Georgia in 1983. My wife and I have been in and out of 400 ft. soft sand strips with it. It is a small airplane hanging on a big engine and is the ultimate bush machine.