WOW! Nearly the exact same thing happened to me 3 weeks ago on Elliott Bay (except for the 24 lb part, this one was only 8).
I had taken a friend and his girlfriend from Ohio out, she was all psyched to catch a Salmon. I was doing my best to find her a fish but it was getting pretty late in the day and I was smelling a skunk when we finally hooked up at about 1:30 pm. She played the fish for a couple of minutes and started to get all giggly. I was beginning to feel relieved, knowing that I had helped to make her salmon dreams come true, and then suddenly the line went slack. The fish had wrapped itself around another guy’s rigger and cut the line. After we realized what had happened, one of the guys in the other boat said "hey! it’s right over there!" I looked, and saw the flasher cruising around on the surface, darting back and forth. It reminded me of "Jaws" when the shark was dragging the buoy around. We carefully sneaked up on it, I was really just hoping to net the flasher and maybe try to get the fish that way, or at least get my gear back, but luckily I got both the gear and the fish in one scoop of the net!

By far the weirdest way I've ever boated a fish.

It was delicious.

Anyone else?