Huge steelhead!

[deerhunter_98520]

I got this pic sent to me today....this huge buck made it all the way to the hatchery on the quinault...was told it weighed 32lbs! 

[Widgeondeke]

      

[Jonathan_S]

Nice!  Glad he made to the hatchery   

[notellumcreek]

32 is almost state record for winter run- awesome that there are still some big boys around 

[HUNTINCOUPLE]

Real cool! They gots some toads in there.

[kisfish]

that's a monster.

[deerhunter_98520]

I've been debating doing a lower quinault trip and I think that just made up my mind

[jackmaster]

Just curious but why did the kill it? Dont steelhead go back out to the ocean or did he actually catch it? My biggest was a 19 and half on the kalama, its been a few years though

[wildmanoutdoors]

Thats a QIN lake hatchery fish caught in a net. Look at the dorsal! The Lake hatchery is a brood stock program they do. They net a few sets of male and female natives swimming thru the lake and hold em till they spawn.

Late January and early Feb is there return time. Dont hire a guide when the nets are in!!!!!!

[wildmanoutdoors]

Or....You could go fish the upper Quinalt. Thats were these huge fish are headed that they net for the brood stock program. Early fish go higher in the systems than later fish...

There huge because they have to help sustain the bigfoot population.

[jackmaster]

Thats a QIN lake hatchery fish caught in a net. Look at the dorsal! The Lake hatchery is a brood stock program they do. They net a few sets of male and female natives swimming thru the lake and hold em till they spawn.

Late January and early Feb is there return time. Dont hire a guide when the nets are in!!!!!!

thank you for the info thats why I love this site..

[canyonduck]

I wouldn't call him a huge buck.  It's hard to tell with the jacket and pants, but I'd put him in the 170lb class.

[RaffleMule]

28 and 29 lbs caught last Thursday.....great marketing by the tribe.  You'll all be booking trips down the Lower.

[Forks]

I would rather clean floors and toilets than support those folks. To each is own I guess.

[Bullkllr]

Shame the ones in the pictures were not "held for spawning"...

Besides being a broodstock program it must also be a harvest program.

Stud fish just the same.