Ok, Now I know this is the cyber world, You know, the place where we have all landed 30lb steelies and 60+ Kings.
But with as much honesty as you can muster , tell us about your most memorable fish battle.
Mine?:
I was fishing on my birthday, Oct 28th last year, On the Sacramento river out of Red Bluff California, the late fall run on the Sac.
My brother John was with me, who has no river fishing experience.
We are drift fishing for Kings from the bank,
I had caught a 30lb buck and about an 18lb hen, when I set the hook on a pig.
I have caught hundreds of kings and can tell a foul hooked fish immediatley. This ole boy is fair ball!
Well, this bad boy sets down on the bottom and won't move.
I'm locked up with my Loomis 8-12 IMX, 15lb main line 12lb leader (Maxima Ultra Green).
I continue to work the Hawg for about 20 minutes, and I get him out of the main current of the river , and he gets his wind and bolts right back out into the main channel where he lays.
Finally I work him into the frog water again and into a pool to my left, I work him into a position where my brother can get to him with my oversize net.
Suddenly I see that huge tail come out of the water, and I know this is the biggest fish of my life.
After a few more short runs, I have him near the bank and my brother takes a stab at him with the net,
************ S-N-A-P-! ****************
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well my brother hits my leader with the net. and It's OVER.
I am sick.
I reel in and feel the deep frays on my line.
I know nothing makes a fish bigger than almost being caught, but that was a TOAD!
The record for the Sacramento river is 88lbs.
This pig was in the fifties at least.
It still hurts.
Come on guy's lets hear it!