Wow, is that real? That is huge. 90#+.

No Skunk

Something "fishy" about that picture!

Looks like mounted fish to me. :rolleyes:

Me too. Nice little blood, trickle effect though.

Smells funny.Good luck,
STRIKE ZONE

That must be a hatchery fish, I have seen it's clone about 6 times!

That smell a little fishy, and I'm not talking about the fish

That fish is huge either way you cutt and paste.

Yep- I agree.


The fish looks as though it died of electricution! :rolleyes:

It does look like a mount! I'm not sure what it is but the guys don't even look to scale.

And would you have your pic taken with a smoke in your hand, hanging on to the fish to pull down on the scale??

I call shenanigans.

Damn Grandpa - I'd forgotten how good lookin you were those oh so many years ago. What is that - about 1985????

The tallest guy in the photo is 6'1" tall...so that makes the fish about 72" long....Caught near Riverbend with a big spin-n-glo and eggs....took 3 hours to land...I took Fishin Physicians advise on how the sportsmen were getting screwed on the Kenai and tossed the egg cluster into one of the nets....I was using 9/0 barbed hooks...

That looks like that model fish out of Homer....

That thing looks just like a Coho Parker caught....

Darn. You beat me to it!

Nice coho!

Gee Grandpa, I recognize that fish. I think we released it in 2002!

Obviously a fake, way to bright to be a Kenai fish!

Some how I knew Fpn had already used this one

Not so fast, AK Kings..... they ain't all boots up there. Here's 51# of platinum.... right down into the tail fin:




Thought Parker might appreciate another one of my black-lipped coho pics.

just goes to show that you can't bs a bser......
I am laid up in bed at home....what excuse do the rest of you have? And Ed...not that long ago....now get back in there and SELL!

Nice fish FnP, figured you would prove me wrong still though, not many look like that.

Some how I knew Fpn had already used this one

Isn't there a similar law in AK that states you are *NOT* allowed to fully remove a king from the water unless it is to be retained???? Mr. I Don't Keep Big Kenai Kings.

Oh sure, the *other* guy in the photo kept it. Where have I heard that line before... :rolleyes:

(Note all the winky and smiley faces.)

I see white gums. That's a coho!

"Forgive me, Parker, for I have sinned..."

Yes you are correct, that fish was removed from the water in its entirety, and unceremoniously bonked shortly after the "live fish" pics were taken. That shot was taken many moons ago... note the much younger, paler, beardless fNp... two years before I started my Release-A-Hawg crusade. For the record, I personally killed one other 50#plus hawg that trip. I am still regretting it to this very day. I have since seen the error of my ways and stand repentant of my evil deeds.

The young man (Randy) standing next to me hooked this gorgeous platinum buck in the old days when I actually let people hold their own rods while backtrolling. The other young fellow (Timmy), standing with only tennis shoes in the Eagle Rock muck, is the one who fought it to the net. You might ask, "Why would anyone surrender such an awesome fish?"

In an attempt to give everyone a chance at a fish, I had Randy pass the rod off since he had just caught and released a chrome 36# hen out of the Pillars earlier that morning.

When we went ashore to do the C&R shot on that fish, I had Timmy jump out to help beach the boat.... only problem was that the tide had already come up a "little" higher than I expected, and Tim jumped into about 6-7 ft of frigid glacial water..... Holy $h*t!

As Timmy went over his neoprene chest waders, and right over his head... all we saw was hands flailing as he was swallowed by the glacial current. As you can see, he lived to tell the rest of the story. After snapping the pics, we rushed him back to camp for some dry clothes... no extra boots or waders, hence the jeans/sneakers ensemble in the pic above.

We hightailed it back downriver to the Pillars, and on the first pass, Randy hooked the cleanest Kenai River buck to ever grace my boat. That trip would prove to be the last time 50#-plus slabs would ever be killed on my boat.

"And now you know.... the rest of the story."

Don't forget to put in the shadow next time