When a friend of mine first asked if I wanted to go fly fishing for halibut many summers ago, I couldn’t help but laugh.

Fly fishing? For a bottom dweller that spends most of its life at depths of 75 to many hundreds of feet?

Good luck with that.

But once you get a handle on when and where nearshore halibut can be found, I quickly found out these flat fish are blast to catch.

Photo by Brian Milne