{"id":10687,"date":"2013-09-03T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-03T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=10687"},"modified":"2013-08-16T19:37:07","modified_gmt":"2013-08-17T05:37:07","slug":"postcard-from-alaska-halibut-fishing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=10687","title":{"rendered":"Postcard from Alaska &#8211; Halibut Fishing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Salmon fishing is real work, baiting the lines, setting up and dropping the downriggers, constant vigilance as you troll up and down the shore. Kelp and other flotsam gets fouled in the lines, the hooks need re-baiting often, up and down again with the downriggers with their heavy lead balls.<\/p>\n<p>Halibut fishing is more my style, find a likely place, drop the anchor, drop in the pole, sit back and crack a drink and enjoy the scenery while you wait for the fish to bite. Given the choice of eating halibut or salmon I will take the halibut! Nothing against salmon, it is pretty good, just that halibut is better.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10688\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10688\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?attachment_id=10688\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10688\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/CB04-12-06210-DC.jpg\" alt=\"Halibut Fishing\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10688\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10688\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Poles in the water while fishing for halibut in Holkham Bay beneath Sumdum Glacier, Alaska<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Salmon fishing is real work, baiting the lines, setting up and dropping the downriggers, constant vigilance as you troll up and down the shore. Kelp and other flotsam gets fouled in the lines, the hooks need re-baiting often, up and down again with the downriggers with their heavy lead balls. Halibut fishing is more my &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=10687\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Postcard from Alaska &#8211; Halibut Fishing&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[403],"tags":[2107,412,665],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10687"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10687"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10690,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10687\/revisions\/10690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}