Surf Fishing & Camping on a Beach - Halibut Catch & Cook

Well guys it is a lovely day today. We've taken the kids out of school early and we're gonna go down and camp on the beach and fish for giant halibut. Fishing for halibut off the beach is a really unusual way to catch halibut here in Alaska so I'm really excited to give it a try. My buddy Jake with the YouTube channel How to Alaska is going to meet up with us and he's been doing it quite a bit and he's gonna show us the rope so it's gonna be fun. Hey yeah got some beautiful Alaskan weather here. You guys catching some bait? Check it out. This is a hooligan. A little fish that comes in from the ocean every spring to spawn up in the rivers. Kind of like a little mini oily salmon. That'll be great halibut bait. Oh you got a couple in there? I have three but one Oh look at that. Manage the net a little bit. You got about four of them in there? Yeah. There you go. Look at that. There's like shrimp. Yeah a whole bunch in there. Well guys this weather's terrible. I'm going back in the car. All right you guys get in there. Well it is cold and wet out there but they're tearing up the hooligan. We'll have plenty of bait. Hooligan hands. They're so cold. They're so cold. It is cold out there. All right we're gonna follow Jake and his family down to their secret halibut spot here. Jake pulled over and got a shovel and his cooler out. They're gonna go dig ice up. Gotta watch out for that yellow snow. Yeah. Oh look at the bald eagles. There's like four of them. Look they're fighting. You need to gather up firewood. Get a fire pit going. So we're on the Kenai Peninsula and we're gonna go surf fishing for halibut. Now halibut can get up to 400 pounds and it's really unusual to catch them from shore. They're usually fished for in one to 400 feet of water. Kind of a deep water species. But in the spring and fall they come in shallow and we might get a chance to catch some really nice fish. Fabulous, fabulous eating fish. Well my third rod has a bunch of problems with the reel so I'm only using two rods but we're gonna let that sit. I'm gonna start getting dinner ready. You guys having fun? It's another day at the beach here in Alaska. Oh no. I'm gonna use the car as a bit of a windbreak. All right guys everyone grab a bowl. I need to juggle a rod or you know. All right guys I'm gonna try making a little rice pudding here with the leftover rice. We're just holding out. Hot rice pudding on a cold day. It's getting about the kids bedtime so we need to start getting their sleeping bags and everything situated. But I think we're gonna have a problem with the tide being too high so we can't pitch a tent right here. So I'm gonna go ahead and try to set up tent in the back of the truck so the boys can go to sleep even if we're gonna fish late. All right guys you good? Yeah. If you need anything bang on the window okay or if you need to get out just push open the sun okay. Love you. Love you guys. Well guys we've been at it all day but no bites. Just been fighting wind and waves but it's late. My wife has been a very good sport so I think it's time to reel it up and go make camp. We got a lot of fishing we can do tomorrow. All right. I got the tent set up and the boys tucked inside into bed. It's late. I gotta go to sleep. I'll see you guys in the morning. Well originally we'd planned on camping right by our fishing rods all night long but turns out there was a really high tide so we ended up going and retreating to the sand dunes and camping there to avoid getting wet in the middle of the night. But now it's morning we're gonna go back to our fishing spot and Jake's already there and set up and we're gonna go see if we can't catch a halibut. We're gonna try fishing all day. Do you like strudels? All right go eat some of those. I'm down to 190. And there's little calculators you can do. Well we finished breakfast and the tide's changed and now it's coming in. Hopefully that means the bite will turn on and we'll catch ourselves some lunch. That looks like an agate. A little bit of quartz right there. We get really extreme tides here. We had about a 25 foot tide last night and the water went almost to the toe of the bluff. But with the water out it's exposed a lot of semi-precious stones. There's jasper and agates and quartz all over this beach and the boys are going bonkers trying to find semi-precious stones. I told Tommy he can polish them up if he gathers up a bunch of them. Well we've been fishing all morning and it's about noon. Just nobody's caught anything or had any bites so we're gonna go try a different beach. Well we're here at this new beach and it's about an hour before high tide so it's the golden hour. Oh the weather's so much better here. It's not quite as windy. It's a little bit warmer. Oh look at that. Guaranteed bite. Yeah chomped it right in two didn't he? Yeah he did. Get him. It's called a skate. Look at that. Now this is a skate. It's a member of the shark family and even though it looks like a stingray it's not. It's got little spines on its tail but no poisonous barbs. Man he's trying to get you with that tail. Yeah he's trying to scare me off but yeah he's scared. That's its gills right there. There we go. There we go. Whoa watch that tail. Some people eat skate but we're not really into that so we uh threw him back. Hopefully we'll get a halibut here in a little bit but hey we're not skunked. It's a stringer of hooligan. A little soul. A little flounder. I'm a soul man. We dad joked that hard. So I think I'm gonna take this moment to try to cook some dinner. We got shish kebabs. It's a little baby skate. What do you think? Was that fun? Yes. First halibut off the beach. And very disturbing. Oh yeah it sprayed blood all over your coat. You look like an axe murderer. I think we might be getting one on this other rod too Tom. Don't worry it's got a ways to go. That is a spine dogfish. Look at that wicked horn they got on the back. That's a dog shark. Look at that. All of a sudden things got interesting and it's getting time to go. I gotta pull up these rods and we gotta get some halibut cooked up. So what we're gonna do we're gonna roll these in panko and deep fry it. Yep. What do you got? Oh big old sculpin. Look at that thing. Look at all that sand in your nose. That's good cocktail sauce. Jake actually made the cocktail sauce from scratch here. That's nice. If I haven't mentioned already Jake has his own YouTube channel How To Alaska. We've done a lot of videos together and he's got some awesome stuff on his channel. Check it out. I'll put a link in the video description below. It's so good. Luke you need to try that. Did you like it? Yeah it was really good. You can't get much fresher than eating halibut on the beach you caught it. Yeah. Listen Jake thanks so much for taking this fish in and cooking up this wonderful fish. Oh man my pleasure. If I would have slept better. It's a regular panko Cody. Drive safe. All right thank you. All right see you guys. Did you guys have fun? Yeah. Well listen guys we have a long trip home so we're gonna say goodbye to you guys and we will see you next Saturday morning. Don't forget to click subscribe. We put out new videos every Saturday morning. Nailed it. If you like this video don't forget to check out the Outdoor Boys YouTube channel where we have hundreds of videos just like this and don't forget to click subscribe so you can see other great videos every Saturday morning. Hit that bell button you'll get notifications. Thanks for watching.