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Whats your biggest Metalhead
« on: February 11, 2009, 11:28:15 AM »
Whats your biggest steelhead to date. Lets see some pics. :drool: My biggest to date was caught back in 2005. It measured up at 41.5 inches by 23.25 calculated out to be 28.5lbs. I couldnt get rid of the smile on my face for a week. Second biggest came the following year he measured in at 40inches by 23inches, calculated out at 27.3lbs.
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Re: Whats your biggest Metalhead
« Reply #1 on: February 11, 2009, 11:37:34 AM »
Beautiful fish. I'll get some pics up shortly. Were those Washington fish?

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Re: Whats your biggest Metalhead
« Reply #2 on: February 11, 2009, 11:44:55 AM »
my biggest come out of the hoh,no pics I do have the video,38inches long 11 in the girth.stan henry weighed it 23 lbs what a blast that was the last time my dad and I fished before he passed.

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Re: Whats your biggest Metalhead
« Reply #3 on: February 11, 2009, 12:09:58 PM »
20lbs native of the hump, no pics  :'(

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Re: Whats your biggest Metalhead
« Reply #4 on: February 11, 2009, 12:13:15 PM »
I haven't been able to get out much this year due to military commitments but here's a pic of my brother's biggest this season.

He caught it at the confluence of the Snake and Clearwater rivers @ Clarkston and it weighed around 20 lbs.

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Re: Whats your biggest Metalhead
« Reply #5 on: February 11, 2009, 12:14:23 PM »
14lbs is all I have been able to get...can't seem to break over it.

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Re: Whats your biggest Metalhead
« Reply #6 on: February 11, 2009, 12:25:34 PM »
my biggest come out of the hoh,no pics I do have the video,38inches long 11 in the girth.stan henry weighed it 23 lbs what a blast that was the last time my dad and I fished before he passed.

My dad used to fish w/ Stan all the time.  I fished w/ him once too.  My dad has one on the wall that he caught w/ Stan on the Hoh that is over 20lbs too.....
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Re: Whats your biggest Metalhead
« Reply #7 on: February 11, 2009, 12:30:22 PM »
I've been to the Kispiox 3 times. You guys wouldent believe me...This was before digital...
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Re: Whats your biggest Metalhead
« Reply #8 on: February 11, 2009, 12:34:42 PM »
my biggest come out of the hoh,no pics I do have the video,38inches long 11 in the girth.stan henry weighed it 23 lbs what a blast that was the last time my dad and I fished before he passed.

My dad used to fish w/ Stan all the time.  I fished w/ him once too.  My dad has one that he caught w/ Stan on the Hoh that is over 20lbs too.....
he was a great guy,to bad about him

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Re: Whats your biggest Metalhead
« Reply #9 on: February 11, 2009, 12:39:23 PM »
my biggest come out of the hoh,no pics I do have the video,38inches long 11 in the girth.stan henry weighed it 23 lbs what a blast that was the last time my dad and I fished before he passed.

I think your girth measurement is off.  You must have meant 21"" not 11",  right? May not have quite tipped 23lbs but easily over 20 w/ a 21" girth.

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Re: Whats your biggest Metalhead
« Reply #10 on: February 11, 2009, 12:42:54 PM »
I haven't been able to get out much this year due to military commitments but here's a pic of my brother's biggest this season.

He caught it at the confluence of the Snake and Clearwater rivers @ Clarkston and it weighed around 20 lbs.

That sure looks like the boatlaunch in wenatchee off the loop trail... riverfront park I think its called...  Not doubting you but even the mountains in the background are exactly the same lol

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Re: Whats your biggest Metalhead
« Reply #11 on: February 11, 2009, 12:45:13 PM »
my biggest come out of the hoh,no pics I do have the video,38inches long 11 in the girth.stan henry weighed it 23 lbs what a blast that was the last time my dad and I fished before he passed.

I think your girth measurement is off.  You must have meant 21"" not 11",  right? May not have quite tipped 23lbs but easily over 20 w/ a 21" girth.
I shouldnt have said girth,11 inches top of the back to bottom of the belly,we weighed it after it set for 3 hrs in the box,So girth was probley23 to 24 I gave that fish to stan to have mounted with a large hen

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Re: Whats your biggest Metalhead
« Reply #12 on: February 11, 2009, 12:47:49 PM »
I'm trying to remember.... I'm pretty sure I have 7 fish over 20 all on the fly.  

3 while in Russia... one of these was 38 x 25 (likley my biggest)
2 on the Dean
2 on the Bulkley... had a 40 x 22 hen: prettiest brightest 1 I ever caught.

I've never got one of the real pigs on the Thompson or the Kispiox.  A bunch in the mid teens though.  I got one on bait in the Clearwater that probably went 20.  It was a hatchery fish that weight 18 and change after being gutted and sitting in a cooler for a couple days.

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Re: Whats your biggest Metalhead
« Reply #13 on: February 11, 2009, 12:50:10 PM »
my biggest come out of the hoh,no pics I do have the video,38inches long 11 in the girth.stan henry weighed it 23 lbs what a blast that was the last time my dad and I fished before he passed.

I think your girth measurement is off.  You must have meant 21"" not 11",  right? May not have quite tipped 23lbs but easily over 20 w/ a 21" girth.
I shouldnt have said girth,11 inches top of the back to bottom of the belly,we weighed it after it set for 3 hrs in the box,So girth was probley23 to 24 I gave that fish to stan to have mounted with a large hen

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Re: Whats your biggest Metalhead
« Reply #14 on: February 11, 2009, 12:52:59 PM »
DAMN Intruder, why not list my dream list of rivers to fish. LOL   I drove through Smithers and it was all Idabooner could do to keep the truck pointed in the right direction. 

 


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