kingspring
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56 1/2 caught by one of my clients....our biggest this year
Seeing as i never fish for myself anymore....this might be as close as I get....
beauty fish richey!!
Biggest Salmon you ever caught???
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Fair Weather Fisherman
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RE: Largest salmon ever caught
The largest salmon ever I ever caught was a 44lb Chinook in the Nitnat gap. Chinook salmon here are huge in late August and early September.
Ucluelet offers some great angling for moinster chinook and halibut,
Try these guys----> http://www.uclueletcharters.com
The largest salmon ever I ever caught was a 44lb Chinook in the Nitnat gap. Chinook salmon here are huge in late August and early September.
Ucluelet offers some great angling for moinster chinook and halibut,
Try these guys----> http://www.uclueletcharters.com
Chuck
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From reading some of the incredible posts from many years ago with beauty fish from 2008 ish very sadly those days are far from gone!
RiverBoy
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i dunno. i jigged up two tyee class springs in one day last summer. had to let them swim of course. they’re still around, but agreed they’re getting rare.From reading some of the incredible posts from many years ago with beauty fish from 2008 ish very sadly those days are far from gone!
had an interesting chat with a gentleman in Nootka a while back who does contract work for DFO. collects water samples etc. he was saying the amount of oxygenated water is a very slim band ( 15 feet ) and it’s getting deeper all the time. he commented that a lot of the biomass stays within that thin band . he kinda
blamed global warming but also said it’s natural factors as well such as algae blooms etc
Howzer
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In the late 80's living in Rupert caught a 46lb in Edye Psg. and routinely caught fish in the mid-30's. Caught a 42lb in Hakaii in '99, and several high 30's in QC Strait in early 2000's. Lately my biggest are in the high 20's and maybe hit 30-ish if lucky, but nothing that big the last few years.
Trophy 2000
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Rivers Inlet in 1999 64 lb with a couple 50s . I caught them with Darrin from Island Outfitters in Victoria when he owned . Great times back then and will never happen again in my lifetime
Poppa Reelie
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My largest just came in 2020 1 mile from the sandheads, 31.5. Before that a few 28-29 range.
I've only been fishing for salmon in general for about 10 years, starting in freshwater and only really getting into saltwater in the last 5 years. So I definitely missed the glory days of the kinds of monsters you guys are posting. 23 lbs in Nootka in 2024 is my PB at the moment.
Mine is a 50 lb in Rupert. 3 in the low 40's. A buddy got a 53 in my boat , it was a double header with a 31 lber. I have had several days with 2 tyee and one day with 3. I have lost 2 by the boat that were 50 plus and I hooked a boot in the river , tseaux while fishing for coho that was 60 plus ..... never landed.
One day I watched 2 old guys in a car topper get a triple.... all landed ..... all over 40 lb .
Another day we watch some chowder get a couple of fish from a distance. Total gong show, tangled lines, missed with net etc. I saw the lady at the gas station. I said how did it go.... she said we got 2 a 51 and a 53 ...... but nothing big like last year....... I went back to my truck after seeing the fish and cried.
I saw a 83 lber at a taxidermist in Rupert .... that's why I use a heavy rod ..... just in case.
One day I watched 2 old guys in a car topper get a triple.... all landed ..... all over 40 lb .
Another day we watch some chowder get a couple of fish from a distance. Total gong show, tangled lines, missed with net etc. I saw the lady at the gas station. I said how did it go.... she said we got 2 a 51 and a 53 ...... but nothing big like last year....... I went back to my truck after seeing the fish and cried.
I saw a 83 lber at a taxidermist in Rupert .... that's why I use a heavy rod ..... just in case.
casper5280
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Got a #41, #39 on the evening bite and a#42 the next morning at first lite at Renfrew years ago. best year of fishing I have ever had. Miss those days.
FRANK WALTERS
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Caught a 42 lb in Pedder Bay about 10 years ago .
Sharphooks
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I remember posting on this thread back in 2012. Biggest spring for me back in those days was a 40 pounder I got at the Iron Mines just around the corner from Lund. First time I ever tried anchovies…in fact, it was on the first drop of the first anchovy out of the pack. I dropped it in 5 meters of water right up against the Iron Mine cliff thinking once I was off the shelf I’d drop it down a bit deeper but the fish was on that piece of bait just a few meters under the boat. An hour later I got it in the net off the beach at Savary Island. A major screamer of a spring.
I’d picked up a few 50’s when I lived in Alaska fishing the Kenai River and a 65 lb fall chinook in the Quilleyute River but figured I’d never get big springs like that in the salt chuck
Then that all changed in 2015. I was cut plugging in about 20 meters of water and I saw a big red smudge on the the screen of my Furuno sonar. No bait, nothing else on the screen except what can only be described as a red smudge.
Then I got the take-down. Unfortunately I had a guide boat doing his normal 5 knot tack right off my transom and despite signaling to him I had a fish on there was no way he was going to back off or slow down because….well, he was a guide.
Instant resistance —-the fish had wrapped one of his big Yamahas. I could see that clear as day based on the angle of the line. Despite my protests, pointing where I was wrapped etc etc he started picking up all three of his downriggers . Meanwhile, throughout all this, the fish was absolutely smoking line off my Hardy Silex and heading straight towards Japan. The guy finally shut off his outboards when he saw his downriggers came up clear and tilted one of them up. Thwack went the line….miracle of miracles….it somehow popped free—-it must have been wrapped just above the skeg because no way it would have popped free like that if had been wrapped above the prop. And the only reason I was free with the fish still on was because this was the first year I tried braid. No way would mono have put up with that kind of abuse because the entire time I dealt with that guy and his boat the fish had been pulling line off the reel
An hour later, drenched with sweat, having burned off an entire tank of kicker gas during the chase, I finally got this into the boat.
The next day, I went back out to the exact same spot and got a 40.
Would I ever do that bit of greedy carnage again?
No, I wouldn’t.
I’d picked up a few 50’s when I lived in Alaska fishing the Kenai River and a 65 lb fall chinook in the Quilleyute River but figured I’d never get big springs like that in the salt chuck
Then that all changed in 2015. I was cut plugging in about 20 meters of water and I saw a big red smudge on the the screen of my Furuno sonar. No bait, nothing else on the screen except what can only be described as a red smudge.
Then I got the take-down. Unfortunately I had a guide boat doing his normal 5 knot tack right off my transom and despite signaling to him I had a fish on there was no way he was going to back off or slow down because….well, he was a guide.
Instant resistance —-the fish had wrapped one of his big Yamahas. I could see that clear as day based on the angle of the line. Despite my protests, pointing where I was wrapped etc etc he started picking up all three of his downriggers . Meanwhile, throughout all this, the fish was absolutely smoking line off my Hardy Silex and heading straight towards Japan. The guy finally shut off his outboards when he saw his downriggers came up clear and tilted one of them up. Thwack went the line….miracle of miracles….it somehow popped free—-it must have been wrapped just above the skeg because no way it would have popped free like that if had been wrapped above the prop. And the only reason I was free with the fish still on was because this was the first year I tried braid. No way would mono have put up with that kind of abuse because the entire time I dealt with that guy and his boat the fish had been pulling line off the reel
An hour later, drenched with sweat, having burned off an entire tank of kicker gas during the chase, I finally got this into the boat.
The next day, I went back out to the exact same spot and got a 40.
Would I ever do that bit of greedy carnage again?
No, I wouldn’t.
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