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Fished the stilly on Friday and finally caught my first silver. The bad news was the size, it was about 13 inches and I did not keep it. I thought it was a trout until I got a good look at it... it was a silver. I saw several fish jumping and rolling (mostly chum), hooked another small one but lost it before seeing it. I switched to a dick nite and not long after that BAM my reel started screaming and my rod bent over...up the river it goes... down the river it goes, flip flopping all over the place. Drift boat was trying to net it for me, but said the fish was too big and that it was a monster(the net was not the large salmon net)they offered to come get me to get me closer and to avoid the rocks that was between me and the fish, I started getting some of my line back and working the fish to me, after about 15 maybe even 20 minutes I finally got him calmed down enough to land, turns out to be a chum...a HUGE chum. Although I new I had to release him, I still grabbed my scale for a quick weighing. Just under 21 pounds. My record chum. Still have not caught a salmon I could keep this year....been out 6 times with out a keeper. Atleast I got to test my new okuma sst....It worked great. Maybe next week I can get a silver large enough to keep.
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