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Other Activities => Fishing => Topic started by: hogsniper on October 08, 2008, 11:39:16 AM

Title: Check out these pigs!!!
Post by: hogsniper on October 08, 2008, 11:39:16 AM: Got this in an email today!!!! Pretty awesome and unbelievable really!!!
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Post by: addicted on October 08, 2008, 11:41:52 AM: yup. were definitely going downhill. cool picture
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Post by: NW-Eric on October 08, 2008, 11:42:30 AM: TO THINK THATS WHAT WAS AVAILABLE BEFORE DAMS AND NETTING :bash:
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Post by: huntnphool on October 09, 2008, 05:17:20 PM: Awsome pic, thanks for sharing
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Post by: Rowdy on October 09, 2008, 05:43:22 PM: Awesome, I wonder if there's even a triple digit Salmon left on this planet.?. I thought my pops 69lb Kenai King was big. Huh.
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Post by: huntnphool on October 09, 2008, 05:50:10 PM: Rivers Inlet will produce one every so often. I had to look close, they almost looked like halibut at first
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Post by: PolarBear on October 09, 2008, 09:23:22 PM: My old fishing buddy has shown me pics of 100+ pounders that his grandpa caught on the Columbia many years ago. I calld b.s. until I saw the pics.
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Post by: bowsandhose on October 09, 2008, 09:52:18 PM: :yike:
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Post by: wf70gonehunting on October 09, 2008, 09:57:03 PM: Man that would be a good time. :chuckle: :chuckle:
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Post by: bowhuntin on October 09, 2008, 10:54:04 PM: judging by the picture those guys probably don't weigh much more than those salmon. great picture.
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Post by: C-Money on October 10, 2008, 09:54:58 AM: I was excited over my 28lb king I caught off Ilwaco! Wow! those are very large. Guess I never thought that salmon got that big!
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Post by: cohoho on October 10, 2008, 11:03:05 AM: Holly crap!, Been there for a 80lber out of the Kenai, not mine but same boat!!!!! Ten years and hundreds of King Salmon trips, way too many fish to count and my personal biggest is 62lbs, can't imagine anything past current record.......... Can you only imagine hooking fish like that in the pictures. Supposedly, there is a place somewhere in Russia that produces huge fish, some in 80-100 range... ???? :P

Huntnphool, need to plan that trip to Rivers Inlet....!!!!!
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Post by: sisu on October 10, 2008, 07:01:21 PM: Quote from: Rowdy on October 09, 2008, 05:43:22 PM
Awesome, I wonder if there's even a triple digit Salmon left on this planet.?. I thought my pops 69lb Kenai King was big. Huh.
Quote from: bowhuntin on October 09, 2008, 10:54:04 PM
judging by the picture those guys probably don't weigh much more than those salmon. great picture.
That because they hired three midgets to pose with the fish. :chuckle:
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Post by: Alchase on October 20, 2008, 09:31:45 AM: The largest King Salmon caught on rod and reel is 97lbs. 4 oz.
http://www.fishersnet.com/records.html

The largest caught in Washington water on rod and reel I believe is 76 lbs.

All the rest were Gillnet or net caught

They had a 78 lbs slab at the fish market at Pike Place Market about ten years ago gill netted.
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Post by: cohoho on October 20, 2008, 11:00:05 AM: I know what the AK state record is, but honestly, I cannot find where the information is on a river in Russia that produces huge Chinooks on a regulary basis, meaning 80 plus lbs.... I know several places have stated the record is between 126 and 127 for fish trap caught or netted fish, either way pigs for certain. The current commercial catch world record is 126 pounds (57 kg) caught near Petersburg, Alaska in a fish trap in 1949, depending upon which source you check... Either way the pics are totally incredible in relation to size of fish that once ran this part of the country. Wow!
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Post by: MuleySniper on October 21, 2008, 09:40:10 AM: Cool pic! Its funny how even today, we still ship all our good stuff overseas!!
MS
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Post by: tmike on October 21, 2008, 09:47:44 AM: I hate to admit it, but when I was younger commercial fishing with my dad in Cook Inlet we netted an 86 pounder headed for the kenai. That's the biggest I saw, but was there when the world record was caught. Another time someone supposedly had one on for over 24hours. We never knew if it was a media stunt or really a 100 plus pounder on that was eventually lost. Those fish have been over exploited by both the commercial and sport (guide) industry.
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Post by: Alchase on October 21, 2008, 12:46:24 PM: Quote from: tmike on October 21, 2008, 09:47:44 AM
I hate to admit it, but when I was younger commercial fishing with my dad in Cook Inlet we netted an 86 pounder headed for the kenai. That's the biggest I saw, but was there when the world record was caught. Another time someone supposedly had one on for over 24hours. We never knew if it was a media stunt or really a 100 plus pounder on that was eventually lost. Those fish have been over exploited by both the commercial and sport (guide) industry.

I remember some news footage of a king "supposed" to be well over 100 lbs on the Kenai, they bent multiple nets trying to net that bad boy and some biologist said by the width of the tail they estimated 110-125lbs. Can you imagine fighting a fish for over 24 hours then loosing it? :'(
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Post by: WDFW Hates ME!!! on October 23, 2008, 05:36:25 AM: Those likely were June hogs that dissapeared with the building of the grand coulee dam.
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Post by: snipekillr on October 27, 2008, 08:33:13 PM: What a pig don't you guys wish we could catch those these days. :yike:
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Post by: fc2038 on October 28, 2008, 09:43:42 PM: I think I would have to cut my line if I saw that one surface. I would be scared. What do yo do with something that big? I would have to fillet with a chainsaw