I was wondering what everyones biggest salmon and or steelie is? Please do not make this a topic where fights will occur because nobody likes them and I am just interestedto see what all your guys's biggest fish is. O and guides if you look at this what is the biggest fish that one of your clients has landed. Thanks for the info (hope im not "stirring the pot")

First thing I'd do is take the sizes that people give you and Multiply them by .75

This seems to keep my fishing partners honest!.......or at least accurate!

Sounds about right Elkrun.

My biggest salmon is 30 lbs caught at Pillar Point back in '87.

My biggest steelie is 22.8 pounds caught last February.

Personally, the biggest salmon I've landed was 53 pounds, the biggest steelhead just over 30, biggest 'but: 87.

For clients, biggest king was 67, largest steelie was 29.5, and the biggest 'but for a guest was 351.

Ahhh, coho. Forgot about those, personal, probably 18-19 pounds that I remember. For a client, just shy of 24.

biggest king was just over 40 lbs on the...well let's just say in a tidewater stretch in sw washington...biggest steel was 21 lbs this past winter caught within 40 minutes of olympia

Biggest King....52lb. Humptulips

Biggest Coho..18Lb. Satsop

Biggest Steely.22Lb. Skykomish

Biggest Cutthroat...9.5lb Lake Washington

fishing partner gotta 14.9lb. cutt. Lake Wash.


Cigar

67 lbs.! I'll bet he comes back every other week, SWEET!! 34lbs. for me. Just S of Dash Point. And only 19 for a steelie at Blue Cr.. Now if you want to talk about the one that got away.......

42 lb king
16 lb coho
18 lb steelhead
72 but
53 " sturgeon
4 lb rainbow on a fly

my biggest.

king=37lbs salmon banks
coho=19lbs skagit river
steel head=20lbs skagit river

Biggest King -- 38 # Sekiu
Biggest Steelhead 21#11 oz Hoh River

I'm working on it... Check back in the fall

king salmon mid 40's
Steelhead 15
Silver 24.5
dolly varden 14
rainbow 9
plus the big one that got away!

Lets hear all the stories about the one that got away. Those are always fun and interesting!

King-37# (flyrd)
Stlhd - 22# (gear)
Coho - 18.5# (flyrd)
Rainbow (lake) 16.5# (flyrd)

Planning on breaking a couple of those tomorrow at Neah Bay.

It was @8 years ago, on lake WA. I was trolling shallow with a Rapala and some small pop gear chasing the rainbows. I was about 125' from shore when I noticed a large party going on at one of the lakefront homes. They were lookin at me, I was lookin at them. you know, just relaxing and takin in the view. Then BAM! Something(a 10+ cut) bends my pole in half. I was by myself, so I flipped her out of gear and wrestled that beast on lite test all the way to the boat. It was an incredible fight. The beast took man and line to thier limits but after a few good runs he was rite at the boat @8' down just kinda chillin. I decided to take advantage of that and reach for the net. As I did, that dammed fish took off, straight up! Before I could do anything I was eye to eye with the twisting turning beast. He was 6 feet out of the water, 20 " away from my face when the demon fish not only spit out my setup, the whole thing landad at my feet(in my boat),as he dove to freedom. I lost it! I threw or beat up everything on my boat in the biggest hissy fit you've ever seen. I probably would have gone on for longer but the sound of laughter from the shore broke my fit of rage. All those poeple on shore watched the whole thing from start to finish. Of coarse, being quick to recover , I gathered my my floating debris and headed for the other side of the lake. Not a day goes by I dont grit my teeth thinking of this!

Biggest King 38
Biggest Steelie 23
Biggest coho 19
Biggest pink 9
sturgeon 72"


The one that got away. This happend saturday July 12th 2003

I was fishing for steelhead and I had already lost one, I was fishin the meat hole on the Lewis and I hooked one up river of me and he went up river more. Got him close to me and he shot straight down to the bottom and held there for I swear like 2 minutes. I pulled him up toward me and he took off down river .
I pulled him back up to me and he shot straight down and he came unhooked. I reeled in my gear and noticed my hook was not hooked it was straigt.
That hook is now up on my wall, I am proud of it

Biggest King= 42lb
Biggest Coho=21lb
Biggest sockeye=11lb
Biggest Chum=20+ lb
Biggest Pink=10lb

King = 42lbs
Steelhead = 23lbs
Coho = 15lbs
Chum = 25lbs
Pink = 10lbs
Sockeye = 9lbs
Rainbow = 5lbs
SRC = 18.5"

king= 36 lbs (pillar pt, frazier river fish football)

coho=18 lbs (sol duc)

steelhead= 18.5 lbs (native hen, upper bogey, above 101)

steelhead ive seen= 28 lbs (by a buddy 2 years ago in march, bogey)

chum=who cares (it was big and ugly)

cutty=24" about 4-5 lbs (hood canal, this past may)

42 pound King (Thanks Bob!)
27 pound Steelhead!

If I were to set some lifetime fishing goals, it would be to catch a 70+ pound King and a 30+ pound steelhead.

Those are some lofty goals!

King - 31 lbs (several in the salt & Columbia)

Silver - 16.5 lbs (hatchery Columbia fish)

Steelhead - 26.3 lbs (Babine, 2 over 20 on that trip, and one on the Quinalt)

Rainbow - 18 lbs even (Rufus Woods, but not a triploid according to the biologist, it just liked the super food)

King= 30 lbs. Pt. Defiance
Coho= 23 lbs. COWLITZ believe it or not just last year ( yes it was hooked fairly with a 2 and a half foot leadear with a small red corkie and some eggs)
Steelie= 18 lbs. on the Sol Duc drift fishin' a big poink Spin N' Glow that they fish with on the Kenai. Those wild fish are afraid of nothing I swear.Thats a catch AND release boys. The prettiest fish that I ever did see.
Sea run Cuttie= 7lbs. 6 ounces in front of my dads old place on henderson bay, on a Crodile spoon when I was 14.
Dolly varden= about a 9 pounder on the Hoh but their everywhere on the Hoh.
Humpy= 12 lbs. by accident fishin' for kings and silvers in front of the Puyallup with a coho killer spoon. The damn thing fought near 10 min's on 20 lbs. test and beefy old school cork eagle claw rods!!!

King= 30 lbs. Pt. Defiance
Coho= 23 lbs. COWLITZ believe it or not just last year ( yes it was hooked fairly with a 2 and a half foot leadear with a small red corkie and some eggs)
Steelie= 18 lbs. on the Sol Duc drift fishin' a big poink Spin N' Glow that they fish with on the Kenai. Those wild fish are afraid of nothing I swear.Thats a catch AND release boys. The prettiest fish that I ever did see.
Sea run Cuttie= 7lbs. 6 ounces in front of my dads old place on henderson bay, on a Crodile spoon when I was 14.
Dolly varden= about a 9 pounder on the Hoh but their everywhere on the Hoh.
Humpy= 12 lbs. by accident fishin' for kings and silvers in front of the Puyallup with a coho killer spoon. The damn thing fought near 10 min's on 20 lbs. test and beefy old school cork eagle claw rods!!!
oh yeah chum= my father in law, no joke caught a 30+ chum the thing was friggin massive. took him over 20 min.s to land!!!
in the satsop

King, 42 pounds on a Berkley electronic scale, upriver bright caught in the Columbia.

Steelhead, 21 pounds using LxG squared/775, caught and released on a fly in the Quinault.

Coho to the boat and measured on the scale, 19 pounds, another one brought to the side of the boat the same day and released without measuring girth as it was a wild fish, but I did measure length against the handle of my rod, and it was an inch longer than my 19 pound hatchery fish, estimated 21 lbs.

My hats off to you spawnout! A released fish is indeed the best kinda fish. Its nice to see that other people also throw fish of larger proportions back. I see to many larger than average fish being killed these days. Do we really need the meat that bad? Or is it the macho " I caught a humungo fish " thing? Sad. everytime I look at whats happening to the Kenia I wanna put my rod away for taking part in it.

Steelhead= 18.11 cowlitz r. 1992 fish country derby winner


Chinook= 47 cowlitz

Chum?= I never bothered weighing one

Rainbow trout= 7

oops almost forgot!
Silver= 21 my honey hole.

King 47 at Sekiu
Steely 26 in the Hoh.
Never weighed other types.

54# King (Queen Charlotte Islands)
20# Steelhead (Sol Duc - released)

Also netted a 57# King for my favorite partner

Biggest Salmon was 45#'s
biggest Steelhead was 22#'s and I had it mounted as you can see i was ptetty happy about it.
Bob

Hey Bob do you have any pictures of that 67 pound king?

My biggest king 50 lbs on the (HOH)and was released and Mr.Mansfield couldn't believe I let it go he was watching me land it.It was not a guided trip.
Steehead 27lbs (Nisqually)
silver 23lbs(Satsop)
chum 27 lbs (Nisqually)
pink 12lbs (CQ)
sockeye 13lbs (Kenai)
Stergeon 7ft above Vernita
Halibut 201 lbs (NB) my boat
lingcod 55 (Homer AK.)

And the biggest that got away was my last trip to AK. the skipper said it would have been
the Homer Derby winner if I would have landded it. I and not a little guy and it was all I could to do to try to get it off the bottom I fought it for 20 min. the it came un hooked. <img border="0" alt="[eat]" title="" src="graemlins/eat.gif" />

King=21#
Coho=8#
Chum=27#
Steelie=24#
Sturgeon=89"est.110#

The one that got away.....
I was fishing Lake Margret with my dad. I was about 6 I guss. We were tyed to the log that sticks out of 20' deep water on the west side. We were fishing powerbait on the bottom after failing to catch one trolling. Still had no luck so we started to eat and forgot about fishing. Then my pole, one of the little push-button ones, jumped out of the boat, skirted acrossed the water for twenty feet, and went down never to be seen again. I later found out that WDFW planted 80 steelhead into that lake that year and this is what we think it was.