Fred, You are right, you got to fish alot of places when it was the real deal !!!
Anyways My biggest have came from the harbor and tillimook !

Satsop 2002, the last year Kings were open 56 lbs.....Weighed at Oly fish market about 6 hours after it was caught..... A big beautiful Buck, caught on Bobber and eggs, 65 lb power pro and 30 lb Maxima ultra green leader and a 5/0- 3/0 Vison hook superfly style tie up ! 45 minutes of profanities and insanity until my Homeboy Decker was able to put it into the net !!!
We hooked and landed 7 over 40 lbs on that particular day........What a fu..ckin day baby !!!

Trask River Oregon 1994, 54 lbs on Bobber and eggs !!!! weighed at the guide shop, they use tohave a great pic of that one on the wall of shame there......................

Humptulips.......from the 80's until present day, so many big kings to remember but I have never personally landed one over 50 lbs there and you would think that I would have as much tme as I have spent onthat river. But many over 30 lbs and a few over 40 lbs.........

Peace
Fly

Some truly amazing fish!

2 for me...sekiu and westport. But back then you'd see a couple pretty much every day.

Anyone remember about 1982 or so when that guy in BC fought a king for two days followed around by a news crew? He ran the first boat out of gas, swapped boats and finally got the fish near the bank but nobody had a net big enough. They tried two nets head and tail and it snapped off. Estimates were over 100 pounds.

Yeah, that one was up at River's Inlet, I believe...estimates were up to like 120, or something like that?

Fish on...

Todd

That was on the Kenai. Saw the guy 2 days in a row as I went downstream from my fish camp. A lot of watchers from the bank as he had it brought up to the waters right next to Centennial boat launch area. TV cameras and all got to watch the loosing of it. From some witness's there it doesn't sound like it was as big as everybody was hoping.

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Derby winner!

If I am not mistaken thats Captain Quilback Hawgslayer supreme Master of the Dead Drop Herring.

I remember that. There was one at RI that broke off.

IIRC that guy was a friend/aquaintance of Salmonella.

Fred's got it right.... well, at least I can verify that his version actually happened. I once had a copy of the footage on VHS, but I think one of my kids or my ex- recorded an episode of Barney or Tele-Bubbies over it.

The date in question was July 12, 1989
The angler was Minnesota tourist Bob Ploeger.
The Kenai River guide was Dan Bishop.
The battle took 37 hours before the fish earned its freedom.
The battle was rather pitiful.... there was almost no load in the rod thru most of the battle. While Ploeger was being interviewed mid-fight, the rod tip was only bent half way to the ferrule at mid-shaft.... about what an 8-10 oz cannonball would accomplish.

The netshot was an absolute cluster... two nets converged to corral the fish from above and below. At the fateful moment of the double scoop, one net hit the leader and .... PING!

Game over after 37 hours!

Doc, you are the Rain Man of fishing statistics. Impressive memory.

I'm an excellent driver.

The question was about "1982", not 1989...and it was about "BC", not Alaska...and in the early 80's at Rivers Inlet, BC, there was a guy who fought a fish all day and all night, and into the next day, when it finally broke his line.

Fish on...

Todd

I have the original issue of Fishin Holes with the story in it, I'll try ad scan and paste it up if I can find it. The fish was hooked by a guide out fun fishing with fellow guides after work. Fish came close more than once but finally broke off , was for sure estimated well over 100.

That's the one, FGB...unfortunately my boxes of FH's from those days are in boxes somewhere that I sure as hell can't find...I think somewheres I have every issue from 1878 thru the middle 80's...

Fish on...

Todd

Yer old.

Seriously?

That's nearly an entire work week.....

Keith

Wow, time machine memories from Capt Robbo...epic Chromer on a Folgers n Donut run. Sure bigger Bucks have been landed but that fish was a HEN! Wonder what the world record Saltwater Hen is cause that fish was a legit 70+ when it hit the deck after the most baddass net job I have seen to this day, fish had to be 4-5 feet under the surface and still green but we saw one of the two Giant Gamis was busted in half and the other was hanging by a thread so it was do or die and the Capt got er done...pulled my only 50+ w Bob way back on the lower Duc in October on a Kwikkie.

Cheers

Les was a good guy,

he was definitely in the club.


I just checked, his IGFA record still holds to this day...