Ya, I'm calling Bullsh!t on this troll too.
A guy bragging on the radio - that'll stand up in court!
Unless you were onboard his boat and saw with your own two eyes, then this is going nowhere, except to possibly shame and libel a fellow fisherman.
As has been noted, it would be awfully difficult to willfully snag a halibut at 200+ feet. Unless the guy is fishing with a dozen bare trebble hooks, I can't see it.
I too have snagged Halibut and kept them. They are going for the lure/bait and are just not very good at catching it the first time. If you have ever seen Charlie White's Halibut videos they make a run at it, miss, and take a minute or two to turn around and come back on the bait. If it hits the line or lure in the pass your instinct is to haul up hard on the rod and you now have a snagged Halibut.
I once got a double-header of Sockeye off the mouth of the Fraser. Trolling with standard pink hootchy/flasher rigs and both fish were snagged in the dorsal fin. Explaination is simple - they attacked the lure, missed it and as they passed the hook flipped over and thanks to sticky sharp hooks bit into the dorsal fin.
And damned right, I kept them! [
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Now, that said, deliberately snagging fish pooled up in a shallow river is an entirely different situation.
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