Spent the weekend at Seiku chasing coho. Saturday was pretty slow, and we ended up trolling well out into the shipping lanes. With a cut plug at 50 feet, I had a monster hit, with line peeling of the reel even before I could get the rod out of the holder. 1st run emptied most of the 300 yards on my reel. Fish turned out to be a slab of a chinook...far larger than my previous best #38...it did not leave the water for weighing, but it was pushing #50.

After some extended high fives and hoots, we put back down and 15 minutes later my partner's rod goes off with another smokin hit...This fish went straight for the bottom (675'!). With just a handful of turns left on the spool, we clipped a second rod to his and got ready to toss his over the side. Fortunately, the brute stopped (or hit bottom?). This fish was even larger than my earlier one. Again, not removed from the water for weighing, but the tail on this puppy was so thick I could barely get my fingers around to tail it...considerably thicker than the tail on the #52 mounted at Olson's.

Amazing.....50 years of combined salmon fishing between us, and we get the slab a lifetime within 30 minutes of each other.

That's awesome. Nice report.

Nice report,Thanks.Good luck,
STRIKE ZONE

Thats a great report, congratulations. Last time I was up there the same thing happened. Only mine was not as big. I was trolling at 30 feet in the middle of the day! Keeps it interesting!

CF

Seems to be some slabs around. My buddies uncle picked up a 66 lber about two weeks ago.

WOW! I love stories like that.

20+ years ago a hog grabed one of my dads buddies hering on a hell bent rampage down the middle of the straits. It was very windy and we probably shouldn't have even been on the water, but we played it for 2 1/2 hours before sliding it next to the boat. As a wee lad I had the displeasure of misnetting the brute my dad and he both estimated at 70 pounds.

I have never misnetted fish since.