A halibut good deal

I am a lousy fisherman, getting boxed out, except one time.

That was out of Kodiak, Alaska, fishing for halibut.

I was on a charter boat that had twin engines and a lot of speed. We were 50 miles out, where the skipper said that the area had a good halibut bed.

I was in Alaska to assist the owner of the Kodiak newspaper in preparing her property for sale, and every weekend she set me up with a new...