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Huge steelhead!
« on: February 12, 2015, 09:00:22 AM »
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!  :yike:

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Re: Huge steelhead!
« Reply #1 on: February 12, 2015, 09:04:22 AM »
 :yike:      :drool:

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Re: Huge steelhead!
« Reply #2 on: February 12, 2015, 09:05:09 AM »
Nice!  Glad he made to the hatchery   :tup:
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Re: Huge steelhead!
« Reply #3 on: February 12, 2015, 09:10:49 AM »
32 is almost state record for winter run- awesome that there are still some big boys around  :tup:
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Re: Huge steelhead!
« Reply #4 on: February 12, 2015, 09:14:33 AM »
Real cool! They gots some toads in there. :tup:
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Re: Huge steelhead!
« Reply #5 on: February 12, 2015, 09:21:58 AM »
that's a monster.

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Re: Huge steelhead!
« Reply #6 on: February 12, 2015, 10:14:07 AM »
I've been debating doing a lower quinault trip and I think that just made up my mind
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Re: Huge steelhead!
« Reply #7 on: February 12, 2015, 10:18:11 AM »
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
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Re: Huge steelhead!
« Reply #8 on: February 12, 2015, 10:45:56 AM »
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!!!!!!

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Re: Huge steelhead!
« Reply #9 on: February 12, 2015, 10:55:25 AM »
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.

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Re: Huge steelhead!
« Reply #10 on: February 12, 2015, 10:59:53 AM »
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!!!!!!
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Re: Huge steelhead!
« Reply #11 on: February 12, 2015, 11:09:45 AM »
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.

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Re: Huge steelhead!
« Reply #12 on: February 12, 2015, 11:17:15 AM »
28 and 29 lbs caught last Thursday.....great marketing by the tribe.  You'll all be booking trips down the Lower. :chuckle:

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Re: Huge steelhead!
« Reply #13 on: February 12, 2015, 12:51:52 PM »
I would rather clean floors and toilets than support those folks. To each is own I guess.

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Re: Huge steelhead!
« Reply #14 on: February 12, 2015, 01:08:51 PM »
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.
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