Strong winds, freezing temperatures and relentless fog have stopped me getting out to sea for three days.

My only hope is a line cast from the shore.

I was wanting to find the line absolutely taught into the water.

But slack means there's nothing there.

Fishing from the shore isn't working.

No bait.

What do you think that waas the next morning brings no better news?

Come on, get out.

Today the boat won't go out.

Another day of poor visibility and high winds means it's still too dangerous to head out in the inflatable boat by making no progress.

I've got to leave this island, but it's not safe to fly in this weather.

I was originally sold this plane.

They're just being dumped here, but it turns out there's a bit more to the story than that.

This was trying to take off Andi.

It was hit by a cross wind gusts, so it basically came back down onto the runway.

The right landing gear poked through the wing.

The propeller got chewed up on the ground.

Basically, they just decided rather than fix it, just just tow it out of the way Set The motor's taken out the instruments or like on the stuff.

And it is now just here as a reminder of how important it is to respect the weather and not to fly when the conditions are sketchy.

Talking to people here very telling me people.

So I always get stuck here for three weeks.

I think the record is five weeks.

There's no way I can afford to be stuck here for that amount of time.

Hello?

You wouldn't become raised in here.

It doesn't.

Why?

That was Let tradition says our tradition.

If you get new people on the island gonna rain the washer for footprints.

So that's why I've come too far to give up.

But the fog isn't budging.

I've got to fish somewhere else by here.

Conditions are better on the other side of the illusion chain.

I just need to figure out how to get that.

Okay, where does it come in?

Is it down?

Just all right.

And what time you're expecting it?

Roughly.

It looks like I could be leaving.

There is a helicopter on its way left us are about half an hour ago should be here within the hour.

Still not good enough conditions for the mail plane to come in.

The reason we're doing this is because in reality, it's not just me.

There is a crew of us here.

Just get in the getting stuff ready.

Just get in the ER The minimum amount of stuff that we can get with three of us on the helicopter flying in this weather will use up more fuel.

So to be safe, we're leaving some gear behind It sounds that should be the hard part.

In this extreme fog.

The helicopter must fly low to maintain visibility.

I'm at the other end of the Illusions chain south of the Alaskan mainland.

The weather here couldn't be more different.

Yet it's the same ocean, the same currents, the same marine life.

If giant halibut is still in these waters, this place is my last chance to find one away from the howling winds and on a sturdy a fishing boat, it's back to rod on line two fish the way I know best.

Goto.

It's no different fields started running, running, running, running, running.

Oh, yes, Yes, yes, yes, it's bigger.

Certainly pulling Holder.

Come on, Bart.

I think I can safely cancel my gym membership Quite reduced to tears, but sweating going on.

I'm revising my estimate upwards.

This is pretty big way.

So see this one They're going to see in a second.

It's big.

It's a halibut, and it's a good one.

See if this will come on.

The boat wants a look at this, and I want to release it.

Normally, those two things are incompatible.

Thes giants have been known to break limbs with their thrashing.

Normally there gaffed, harpooned or shot before being brought in doing the tail on the strength of it.

Even when its propulsion unit is, uh, supposedly immobilize Open the door, then recognized.

Bring it on, boy to me.

I'm right.

It's biting me on.

Here we go, Here we go.

Here we go.

Here we go.

Here we go.

Here we go.

Way Go on.

If you could support, that will shift my grip.

Now here it's £100 of solid muscle, Just about manageable in the boat.

They're definitely here A big old mouth something.

This is such a efficient predator.

I want to take some time to marvel at this monster of the deep.

But it's so strong.

Yeah, I'm gonna want to hear the whole shit.

I just know that I can't hold it.

Hold it.

I got, um I think this might just go straight up the side.

I can't sit with this on my new go ahead.

People come out of there.

Uh, that's one of the few times I've been beaten up by a fish.

I was trying to get it to pose nicely, but there they call it ill manners, Halibut.