And I'm guessing it was up about halfway -- we were in about 250 feet of water --and it's starting to move a little bit. And the more we got it up, the more it started to show some activity.

I had to go hand-over-hand with that. It was very tiring.

He tells us to get right alongside the head, so we do, and tie the rope off along the side with about 30, 40 feet of line.

When we got it in sight of the boat, HOLY SMOKES! It's a big halibut.