ALASKA: 264 pound halibut at the Valdez Halibut Derby

Angler Calvin Carr traveled to Valdez om Alaska, and the trip was worth it. He landed a 264-pound halibut to win the annual fishing tournament the: "Valdez Halibut Derby" and its prize of $15,000

Carr luckily hooked into the fish just minutes before the captain he was with, Dennis Petre, was ready to pull up anchor and head back to the port of Valdez. After landing small fishes, this one took

ALASKA: Biggest halibut of the year

With her busy work schedule, Annette Gutierrez doesn’t get many free days. She works 12-hour days, seven days a week. “We had a few days off and we almost never have days off so we decided to go fishing,” Gutierrez told the Fairbanks News-Miner. Gutierrez had never gone fishing in her life. Not once, even though when she’s not working in Alaska she hails from the tiny southwestern New Mexico