Post by: 1bowhunter1 on December 17, 2009, 07:50:39 PM
Post by: tmike on December 17, 2009, 07:59:53 PM
Post by: SkookumHntr on December 17, 2009, 08:07:12 PM
Post by: Hangfire on December 17, 2009, 08:09:14 PM
Are you sure it was a steelhead. The largest winter fish are normally later returning fish, March or so. The largest summers are the B run in the snake. They do stray of course. There are still some salmon in the rivers.
A 40 pound steelhead would be about a 10% increase over the current record for either winter or summer run.
Post by: MuleySniper on December 17, 2009, 08:14:22 PM
MS
Post by: Dadbear on December 17, 2009, 08:16:53 PM
Post by: 1bowhunter1 on December 17, 2009, 09:01:43 PM
Post by: 1bowhunter1 on December 17, 2009, 09:03:16 PM
Post by: tmike on December 17, 2009, 09:18:21 PM
I may be wrong but it was 33 plus. The Summer record is still 35. Someone correct me if I'm wrong.
Post by: WDFW Hates ME!!! on December 17, 2009, 09:27:48 PM
Post by: Antlershed on December 17, 2009, 09:47:14 PM
Post by: squeeze2drop on December 17, 2009, 10:00:22 PM
Post by: tmike on December 17, 2009, 10:15:00 PM
Post by: squeeze2drop on December 17, 2009, 10:41:19 PM
Post by: hawk eyes on December 17, 2009, 11:12:39 PM
Post by: klickman on December 17, 2009, 11:22:10 PM
KLICKMAN
Post by: tomy salami on December 18, 2009, 03:12:12 AM
Aint one of em from no Colombia Trib, and sure as hell aint in December.
You saw a late, bright, winter nooker.
Believing there are toad steelies the size you speak of in this state.........most definitely
Pushin 40#?............know it. Catchin one?.......fat chance. Perhaps if you sew four 10#ers together.
Post by: 1bowhunter1 on December 18, 2009, 06:06:11 AM
Post by: boneaddict on December 18, 2009, 06:26:18 AM
Post by: GoldTip on December 18, 2009, 07:03:26 AM
Post by: fishseeker on December 18, 2009, 09:12:28 AM
Post by: tomy salami on December 18, 2009, 10:35:34 AM
Original post said 4-5 footer.........huge range there. Do you realize how much weight gain steelhead get not only for every inch longer, but every half inch in diameter?
What year did the Lewis knock out that "state record"? Betcha there aint one chromosome left in gene pool from fish like that.........because if was prolly thirty years ago.
Everyone sees pictures of huge steelies from time to time............they come from places like Clearwater, ID, British Colombia, and the Washington Coast.
There is an exponentially better chance of a chrome nooker in the Lewis than a 4-5 foot steelhead.
Either way............somebody go catch that sumbitch. I wanna see a fish of this maganatude.
Post by: tmike on December 18, 2009, 11:26:42 AM
Post by: SkookumHntr on December 18, 2009, 11:43:12 AM
P.S. Muskys in the N.F. LMAO!!! Ya RIGHT Never in a million yearsIm not joking, Ive never seen one and I wouldnt believe it either But a guy back trolling plugs I believe it was last year caught a monster tiger muskie in the lewis, no *censored*! I would Believe that over your 5 ft Steelhead! It may have been the only one in the river and im sure somebody through it in there from merwin lake or somthing but that guy caught it!
Post by: 1bowhunter1 on December 18, 2009, 05:20:05 PM
Post by: FishOrDie on December 18, 2009, 06:38:27 PM
steelhead, winter-run Oncorhynchus mykiss 32.75 lbs Gene Maygra EF Lewis River, Clark Co. April 14, 1980
steelhead, summer-run Oncorhynchus mykiss 35.06 lbs Gilbert Pierson Snake River, Whitman Co. November 23, 1973
http://wdfw.wa.gov/cgi-bin/database/fish/fishing_record.cgi#fresh
Post by: fishcrazy on December 18, 2009, 08:02:13 PM
Regardless of what you seen I hope you have fun getting after him. It must be a rush fishing knowing you have one like that lurking around. Every time the line bumps and you feel that fish tug yer heart skips and you think "is it him" Must make for a fun day.
Good luck I hope you do catch the next state record!!! And if it was a metalmouth who says it was wild? :yike:
Kris
Post by: Houndhunter on December 18, 2009, 08:04:26 PM
Post by: turbociv922001 on December 18, 2009, 08:10:50 PM
Post by: 1bowhunter1 on December 19, 2009, 06:06:33 AM
Post by: turbociv922001 on December 19, 2009, 08:33:59 AM
Post by: MuleySniper on December 19, 2009, 11:41:23 AM
(https://hunting-washington.com/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi94.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fl89%2FMuleySniper%2F-1-3.jpg&hash=7dcc04ec94897d3d33e665bebc6550b9ddc2a566)
Post by: huntnphool on December 19, 2009, 11:57:08 AM
Post by: tomy salami on December 19, 2009, 12:16:34 PM
However, not all of dem git that way. Buddy of mine landed a 31 inside of 5 minutes. Fat, lazy steelhead.
Lot of personality in steelhead........Cowlitz fish seem to be among the laziest, along with Snoqualamie fish.
The hottest fish I have ever seen were in the Mattole River of N. California. Small fish, but meaner than a snake.
Are there big steelhead comin through here in Feb. and March? A guy should be switchin to springers on the Colombia or its tribs by then.
Post by: jackelope on December 19, 2009, 12:58:50 PM
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Are there big steelhead comin through here in Feb. and Marchnative winter fish, big boys... most of the rivers are usually closed, at least the "s" rivers up this way.
Post by: Alchase on December 19, 2009, 04:09:35 PM
Post by: 1bowhunter1 on December 19, 2009, 04:44:33 PM
Post by: 1bowhunter1 on December 19, 2009, 04:51:18 PM
Post by: jackelope on December 19, 2009, 07:27:27 PM
what kind of phone do you have?
Post by: huntnphool on December 19, 2009, 07:28:26 PM
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Alchase i'v heard that Steelhead are the only Fish that will go to other rivers then Home!
Not true 1Bow, I was talking with one of the Columbia bio's last year about this, he told me there were some sturgeon caught in Russia a couple years that were tagged and released in the Columbia :yike:
Post by: 1bowhunter1 on December 20, 2009, 06:33:20 AM
Post by: PA BEN on December 20, 2009, 07:32:14 AM
Post by: fishcrazy on December 20, 2009, 09:10:11 AM
Thats interesting Huntnphool! I did hear that as well. Its pretty amazing the Distance fish Swim. I have been trying to get ahold of a Friend of mine that Caught and Landed a 30+ Steelie....he has Pics trying to get him to send them but Of Course cant find him! Just trying to Show some Non-Believers that there are Steelhead In the N.F. Lewis that are That Big! Some people dont think they are in the just because there not seeing them Hang from a Meat Hook! Many, Many Steelhead Swim in and Out of that River and Never see a Bait in front of them....There hole life! Just my :twocents:
I believe!!! I know of a 29 taken from the Lewis just a few years ago by a guide. It was even on the front cover of STS. I fished with him and got the story first hand he even showed us wehre he got it. Talk about a pig!!!
That river has had some huge fish taken from it. Wasn't it a few years back that some fish Bios found a coho carcass that they figured over 30# :yike:
Kris
Post by: jackelope on December 20, 2009, 11:01:19 AM
Post by: tmike on December 20, 2009, 11:22:15 AM
Post by: Shootmoore on December 20, 2009, 11:47:18 AM
Could there be a 40+ sure could, just like there are probably 500 pound B. Bears out there.
Shootmoore
Post by: huntnphool on December 20, 2009, 12:13:38 PM
Post by: tlbradford on December 20, 2009, 12:43:51 PM
That book was published in the late 70's but I don't remember if they said what year that happened.
Post by: 1bowhunter1 on December 20, 2009, 03:12:29 PM
Post by: tomy salami on December 20, 2009, 04:52:21 PM
Wanna do some crazy talk? Consider the Coast.................in April.
I have a friend, who knows a guy, and while gutting his last 50# native steely........
pulled a 5# springer jack out of the gizzard parts.
Bout the same odds of some 5' steely in the Lewis.
Anyways, much more entertaining readin about real fish. Nough of the rotten salmon talk.
Post by: turbociv922001 on December 20, 2009, 05:37:35 PM
http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=viewImage&friendID=73594966&albumID=1650557&imageID=42277536
Post by: 1bowhunter1 on December 20, 2009, 05:43:11 PM
Post by: tomy salami on December 20, 2009, 07:47:44 PM
whats ur guys guess on the weight of this old native?
http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=viewImage&friendID=73594966&albumID=1650557&imageID=42277536
220ish and low to mid twenties. What was the tape sayin?
Post by: tomy salami on December 20, 2009, 07:58:28 PM
Mr Tomy Ur Funny....the nowhere of everything fish.... :chuckle: :chuckle:
Easy brah, better git back to searchin for your leviathan of the deep. Still stick with 5' as a possibility?
I know just enough to get me in enough trouble.......and the upper ends of possibilities.
Just like I saw a unicorn that crapped skittles and pissed a rainbow while I was deer hunting. I did not draw a unicorn tag this year, so the kill will have to wait.
Post by: turbociv922001 on December 20, 2009, 09:13:54 PM
Post by: tomy salami on December 20, 2009, 09:19:50 PM
Try to get the measurement? You got him in a cooler or something?
Post by: turbociv922001 on December 20, 2009, 09:30:20 PM
was 35" and girth was 25
calculator says 26.34lbs
Post by: tomy salami on December 20, 2009, 09:41:31 PM
Which calc you using? The one I got came in @24 and change. Either way, its in there. Not too many steelies crackin 20 without goin 40".......... That is one short heavy fish.
Glad he climbed out of the cooler. Seen too many of em who did not figger out how to git out.
That fish is today's big winner..........unless somebody be comin up with the magical 5'er.
Post by: 1bowhunter1 on December 20, 2009, 10:00:28 PM
Post by: tomy salami on December 20, 2009, 10:13:59 PM
The little cartoon punctuations are a nice touch, though.
Post by: turbociv922001 on December 20, 2009, 10:15:58 PM
smoked me on 8lb ande.and slammed a tiny salad shrimp with just a split shot. released with no probs,saw him in the same hole a week later. 8)
Post by: tomy salami on December 20, 2009, 10:20:06 PM
got last winter, maybe late summer fish? never caught one that big or dark. but he def is a heavy fish.
smoked me on 8lb ande.and slammed a tiny salad shrimp with just a split shot. released with no probs,saw him in the same hole a week later. 8)
Who cares how dark they are when they get that big.
10# dark steely? I could care less.
20# dark steely......much more forgiving in judging the quality of the trophy.
Git him mounted.
Post by: turbociv922001 on December 20, 2009, 10:26:08 PM
you know anyone good to do mount? idea on price? thnx
Post by: Goldeneye on December 20, 2009, 10:28:14 PM
Post by: tomy salami on December 20, 2009, 10:35:50 PM
Got a waiting list bout a year, last time I checked.
Bet a fish that size will be under $1600. Spensive, but you will have that bad dog on the wall for a LONG time. NEVER go cheap on fish reproductions......seen brohunskies do it...........disgusting.
bowhunter........ I call guys who do fish reproductions just for fun. You know, so I can sound like I have seen a fish or three.
Post by: turbociv922001 on December 20, 2009, 10:39:21 PM
Post by: tomy salami on December 20, 2009, 10:45:14 PM
Just bring the dimensions and all the pictures you have of the fish.
He takes a mold of a fish the same size and adds fins, scales, eyes, teeth..........on and on.
Final product will outlast a skin mount any day. They look much better to boot.
Seriously.
He will do it all to your specs (background, if you like) with just length x girth, and all the color photos you have. The chap can make the texture of scales and airbrushes the whole gig to perfection.
Post by: Goldeneye on December 20, 2009, 10:49:49 PM
http://www.blackwatertrading.com/site/home.html
Post by: turbociv922001 on December 20, 2009, 10:51:11 PM
Post by: jackelope on December 20, 2009, 10:51:34 PM
Post by: turbociv922001 on December 20, 2009, 10:56:15 PM
Post by: tmike on December 21, 2009, 07:04:58 AM
Post by: turbociv922001 on December 21, 2009, 08:13:58 AM
Post by: Hangfire on December 21, 2009, 06:30:30 PM
They are just that stories.
Large fish return to most hatcheries at one time or another but not the size and frequency that these stories would have you believe.
Post by: tomy salami on December 21, 2009, 06:50:04 PM
Every guy who has ever had dreams of monsterbeast steelhead has heard that famous Cowlitz story.
Not nearly as much BS being slung, when the subject of toad steelies from tribal nets, though.
You do not even want to know the truth..........same goes for salmon
Stories get legs faster in more densely populated areas. We could not even conceive how many large steelhead breath their last in a net, in the middle of nowhere.
Post by: klickman on December 22, 2009, 11:01:02 AM
ha, you do have a point.
you know anyone good to do mount? idea on price? thnx
Check with bucklucky he's doing fish now.
KLICKMAN
Post by: Alchase on December 22, 2009, 01:19:20 PM
Check the "stickyfied" link
Fish Field Care Info for Mounting (Skin Mounts and Reproductions)
at the top of this "Fishing Forum" some great info in there.
Post by: turbociv922001 on December 22, 2009, 01:22:33 PM
Post by: MuleySniper on December 23, 2009, 12:08:25 PM
On another note...
Still waiting to see this sasquach world record steelie! :chuckle:
MS
Post by: banannaclip on December 23, 2009, 02:54:17 PM
Post by: 1bowhunter1 on December 28, 2009, 02:16:07 PM