Halibut fillets

Love it, about like a flounder just a steak that can be a couple inches thick and holds up great on a super hot grill

now is the time to get it but it will cost $25+/- pound

in Baton Rouge try Alexanders market and whole foods

Use to love when my dad would get some fresh and made fried fish nuggets when I lived Alaska as a kid.

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awesomer to catch

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Love the feeling of hauling a barn door to the surface, but those Halibut don't have much fight in them and aren't much fun to catch. They basically just turn sideways to give the most resistance possible when you real them to the surface...

The best part is knowing that you'll have fresh halibut for dinner...

What was the price/lb?

My friend in Montana told me they pay 11.99/lb up there. I cried a little.

Thanks. Look in the WFDT thread please.

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That's how they processed ours on Kodiak. Filleted them and flash froze them. I brought home 2 70# boxes of boneless white goodness. Didn't find it oily at all. Great prepared on the grill, pan, broiler, baked...makes me want to go back. We cooked and ate the cheeks while we were up there.

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Thanks so much. Your post reassures me that I should expect a good product. I don't think my Dad has ever had fish cheeks and I think he will enjoy those a lot. He'll get halibut on occasion at Whole Foods when he's in BR, but it's not the same because it's been sitting out and is defrosted. I would expect these to taste fresher and be of a higher quality when he can defrost right before cooking them.

I love Halibut.

I do a light pistachio crust or simply pan sear in butter with the skin on---The skin is bacon of the bay.....

I once had a chef tell me a fishing tale that he caught a 137 lb halibut in Alaska and the deckhand shot it in the head with a .410 before he brought it aboard. He asked why he did that and the deckhand told a tale of a boat being discovered with a halibut that size and no one else in the boat.....He said he cooked the cheek that night and people were eating around the shot like a duck breast....

Thanks Miles!!