45 minutes in becher bay like 9 years back- my largest salmon - around 40, in my 12' aluminum in middle of bay towards aldridge, no one around and no seals - a perfect setting, just my son with me. He was too small to even crank the downriggers, so they stayed down and I just told my boy, this is a beast, I have no idea how I can land this. I was right. Took like 5 huge runs, I babied the thing in knowing I needed to have it sideways for any shot. Finally had a go, net one arm, rod as high as possible the other (6'+ leader didn't help) - actually got it half in net but just couldn't get him all the way, one little flip of the tail and the net got caught on the rod holder - mad scramble to try to undo it, and that was it, game over. I've replayed that fight 20 times in my head since! lol