How To Filet A Halibut (and other flat fish)
- / BY Joe Sarmiento
- / January 13, 2012
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at 8:38 pm
This would’ve come in handy if my halibut was legal. Thanks again for the invite. It was a great start to fishing for 2012. And thanks to you, I’ve added another landing that I can fish out of. Looking forward to what you have planned for this year. Keep up the good work and I hope to fish with you again.
at 10:32 am
Good to see you buddy. Happy New Year. Congrats on the jackpot. I just posted the trip report. Tight lines!
at 10:39 am
Pretty sure the method described here violates DFW regs section 27.65 (6) “Filleting Fish on Vessels: California Halibut”
at 10:48 am
Thanks Dave. On the boats, they leave the skin still attached to the filet at one end of the filet to comply with the regs. You have to peel it off when you get home.
at 3:23 pm
Joe, Hali’s have special fillet regs. You can no longer “loin” or “quarter” the fillets unless you can do so while leaving the 2 loins connected by the single piece of skin. Check the reg, I’m not lying 🙂
2013-2014 Ocean Sportfishing Reg
Section 27.65
(6) California halibut taken from or possessed aboard a vessel south of Point Arena (Mendocino County): Fillets must be a minimum of 16 and three-quarter inches in length and shall bear the entire skin intact.A fillet from a California halibut (flesh from one entire side of the fish with the entire skin intact) may not be cut in half fillets. However, a fillet may be cut lengthwise in a straight line along the midline of the fillet where the fillet was attached to the vertebra (backbone) of the fish only if the two pieces of a fillet remain joined along their midline for a length of at least two inches at one end of the fillet.
at 3:51 pm
Didn’t doubt you before Dave. I looked it up too. The post is from last year, so the DFW may have modified the reg. The guys on the sportboats are up on the regs. It’s their livelihood. For me, whenever I’ve caught halibut on a private boat or on the shore, I just waited until I got home. The post was meant more to show people how to do it. Thanks for stopping by.
at 4:14 pm
All due respect, that reg has been on the books for a while. Here is a 2009 article: http://californiaoutdoorsqas.com/2009/09/30/filleting-halibut-at-sea/ referencing the reg. As I recall, it went into effect prior to that. I remember hearing my deckhand friends bitching about having to comply with the new rules.
I am a former deckhand, (long time ago) and I am not disparaging them. It’s difficult to find a harder working person! I am merely pointing out that your publically available information on “How to fillet a halibut” has a factual flaw in its presentation, if you seek to educate those who don’t already know the regs.