Salmon: Biggest and what species have you caught?

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RE:Salmon: Biggest and what species have you caught?

Post by EdmondsBassMan » Fri Oct 12, 2007 10:45 pm

Hey Sam,
When? Where?(Snohomish?Skykomish?) With what?
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RE:Salmon: Biggest and what species have you caught?

Post by A9 » Sat Oct 13, 2007 1:10 am

Edmonds,
Shoot me a PM I'll try and help you out. Lemme know any questions you got and i'll let you know.
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RE:Salmon: Biggest and what species have you caught?

Post by islandbass » Sat Oct 13, 2007 8:47 am

EdmondsBassMan wrote:King = 0
Silver =10lbs Snoho River chartreuse Blue Fox
Pink = 6 lbs Kayak Point BuzzBomb white with Pink stripe
Chum = 0
Sockeye = 0

This is my first year salmon fishing and I'm finding it to be pretty addictive. I look forward to catching a big King! I have seen a thread about chum salmon and will be trying for them as well.
You are in for a ride with the chums!!!!!! I am new to salmon fishing but I got hooked onto chums early on. Take a smallies awesome fight and add amplify with pound for pound sheer bulldog brute strength. That is the fight of a chum; They are strong enough to spool a 201 Curado D.

King: Never targetted
Silver: Lost my first hook up ever at Dash Point fishing for pinks. Other than that, never intentionally targetted
Pink: Dash Point dock, buzz bomb, drop shotted pink worm. More lost to seal than caught.
Chum: Green River from the bank. Double lime geen corky with pink yard and smelly jelly scent. Hold on to your rod and reel!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sockeye: Never targetted

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RE:Salmon: Biggest and what species have you caught?

Post by Jake Dogfish » Sat Nov 03, 2007 10:31 am

King 28# Skokomish -eggs
King 58# (Kenai, AK) -Backtrolled Giant spin and glo with a baseball size glob of eggs
Silver 14# Lower Hood Canal - tube jig
Sockeye 7# (Kenai) -Chartruese yarn
Chum 16# Skokomish -Green Wooly bugger
Pink snohomish 6# -pink jig, near hoodsport 6# -pink jig
Atlantic 5# Green river -tube jig
Steelhead 11# Cowlitz river -pink corky white yarn eggs

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RE:Salmon: Biggest and what species have you caught?

Post by Derrick-k » Sun Nov 11, 2007 11:15 pm

Finaly caught some Chume biggest was a 10lber. In the smoker right now.

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RE:Salmon: Biggest and what species have you caught?

Post by A9 » Sun Nov 11, 2007 11:51 pm

Derrick-k wrote:Finaly caught some Chume biggest was a 10lber. In the smoker right now.
I hope to be doing the same thing over the next few weeks...Where'd they bite for ya if you don't mind sharing?
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RE:Salmon: Biggest and what species have you caught?

Post by JimLyons » Sun Nov 11, 2007 11:55 pm

King- 16lbs Westport
Silver-10lbs Westport
Halibut- 39 lbs Vancouver Island
Steelhead-22lbs Snake River

More, I want More!!!!

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RE:Salmon: Biggest and what species have you caught?

Post by Derrick-k » Mon Nov 12, 2007 1:26 pm

Hoodsport Hatchery zone, combat fishing but I caught a chromer and someone else caught a chromer, nice firm red meat.

I think I cuaght around 6 or 7 total, and hooked pleanty more.

Lots of big schools of fish just a few feet right in front of you bring chest waders and prepare for rain.

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RE:Salmon: Biggest and what species have you caught?

Post by dbfisherman » Mon Nov 12, 2007 11:51 pm

I hope jayboy knows that fishing or any water contact at lucia falls what so ever is NOT ALLOWED!!!

So I wouldnt even consider those fish legally caught.

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RE:Salmon: Biggest and what species have you caught?

Post by Fish Antics » Tue Nov 13, 2007 10:44 pm

I have to say that I saw a bright net caught 64 pound king when I worked at Bumblebee Seafoods in B'ham. The fish had about 20 broken mooching leaders trailing from his mouth. Must have been a whole lot of fishermen talking about the one that got away as it swam down the coast -snap! snap! snap! ... and boy were they right!

Helped a guy try to weigh what turned out to be a chrome bright 66 pound king his wife hooked while fishing for halibut in southeast Alaska (Petersburg). You don't have to be the one that caught a fish this big to know it is an awesome specimen. Still think about those two - even though I didn't catch them.

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RE:Salmon: Biggest and what species have you caught?

Post by Fisherman_max » Thu Nov 15, 2007 2:23 pm

dbfisherman wrote:I hope jayboy knows that fishing or any water contact at lucia falls what so ever is NOT ALLOWED!!!

So I wouldnt even consider those fish legally caught.


FYI it is legal to fish lucia falls as long as you are 100 feet above or 100 feet below the falls. i have fished with jayboy and his cousins there and it is legal
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RE:Salmon: Biggest and what species have you caught?

Post by gpc » Mon Nov 19, 2007 2:37 pm

This is KiNg.Me206 @ GPCs house this salmon season I caught

King<25lbs<Green River on orange corky and orange yarn
Chum<14 and 3/4 lbs> Kennedy Creek on black and gold corky with green yarn
Silver<7 and 3/4 lbs> on #4 blue fox silver with pink and black
Pink< 6lbs> on pink jig tippped with prawns

Its been a year to remember on the green river lots of storys to tell its been fun

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RE:Salmon: Biggest and what species have you caught?

Post by jbball50 » Mon Nov 19, 2007 9:12 pm

King-23lbs sekiu
Coho-have no idea probably around 8lbs
Chum-bunch of those nasty things around 15lbs at chico creek,kennedy,hoodsport
atlantic-9lbs when they accidently got released or the net broke in the bay by the psns bremerton base
Pink-6lbs port angeles

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RE:Salmon: Biggest and what species have you caught?

Post by Smalma » Tue Nov 20, 2007 2:14 pm

Have been fortunate enough to have cuaght the ocassional nice fish in my angling career

Chinook - gear caught mid 50s (spinner); fly caught 50 inches long (50#+?) - both in BC
Coho - gear caught 20# (eggs) ; fly caught 16#, Skagit River
Sockeye - gear caught 10# on bare hook -Lake Washington
Pink -gear caught 10#; fly caught 12# Skagit River
Chum - gear caught ~24# (yarn- Sky), fly caught ~26# Skagit
Steelhead - gear caught 41.5 inches long (eggs); fly caught 42 inches long -North Sound rivers

Tight lines
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RE:Salmon: Biggest and what species have you caught?

Post by mallard83 » Tue Nov 20, 2007 8:20 pm

King= 32 lbs undisclosed river on the peninsula
Silver= 19 lbs undisclosed river on the peninsula
Pink= 13 lbs Skykomish River
Chum= 21 lbs Skykomish River
Sockeye= 12 lbs Lake Washington
Steelhead= 18 lbs Skykomish River

I have hooked larger of a few of these species, but have failed to fallow through with the landing part.
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RE:Salmon: Biggest and what species have you caught?

Post by carl » Mon Nov 26, 2007 7:45 pm

King-34.8lbs. Samish Rv.
Coho-12lbs. Samish Rv.
Chum-15lbs. Skagit Rv.
Soceye-6lbs. Baker Rv.
Pink-8lbs. Skagit Rv.
Steelhead-5lbs hatchery fish Skagit Rv.

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RE:Salmon: Biggest and what species have you caught?

Post by AdsBot [Google] » Thu Nov 29, 2007 12:04 am

King - 38 lbs. commencement bay 1996
Coho - 16.5 lbs. port hardy, ca 2006
Chum - 5 lbs. puyallup river 1982
Sockeye - 4 lbs. port hardy, ca 2006
pink - 9.3 lbs. commencement bay 1964
steelhead - 14 lbs puyallup river 1982

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RE:Salmon: Biggest and what species have you caught?

Post by spokey9 » Thu Dec 27, 2007 11:41 am

king - 22lbs
silver - 9lbs
pink - 4lbs
chum - 14lbs

i caught all those between the clay banks at point defiance and dash point
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RE:Salmon: Biggest and what species have you caught?

Post by AdsBot [Google] » Fri Jan 04, 2008 1:21 am

Goood Topic!!

KING: 40.5 Pounds BLUE DOT, WA
SILVER: 21.4 Pounds Queen Charolette Sound, BC
HALIBUT: 51.9 Kirby Point, Barkley Sound, BC
CHUM: 25.2 pounds, Malcom Island, BC
CUTTHROAT: 5.5 pounds Lake Washington, WA
STEELHEAD: None
LINGCOD: 34.38 pounds where else but NEAH BAY, WA!

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RE:Salmon: Biggest and what species have you caught?

Post by JT26 » Sat Jan 05, 2008 10:40 pm

-King - Not sure but i know none over 15lbs, and plus i have only caught maybe 9 or 10, and proboly had help on most of them, cause i caught them all when i was little, exept one this year

-Silver - 12 lbs, sept 2007, Ilwaco

- Pink - only caught one, it was from a pier and got stolen by a sea lion or seal, it looked average sized, but i dont think that counts since i didnt land it.
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