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.