I handed off a big fish to a buddy (he was in the head and left his rod in the rod holder) his rod was getting bit so I graabed it and set the hook, I immeadiately thought it was a big halibut and told him to get and fight it, I didn't want any part of a halibut on light gear. He starts fighting it and I'm trying to get him to cut it off so we can get back to the "hot" silver bite, after about a half hour of hanging on the bottom it makes a beeline to the surface and jumps, it ended up being a 57lbs. king caught on a steelhead rod with a bantam reel spooled with 150yds of 8 lbs. Maxima, took 5:45 minutes to land the fish.

I had a 42lbs. king follow my cutplug herring to the boat last summer, but didn't bite, I dropped back down about 30' and reeled back up again, still chasing, dropped again and just as the bait dropped out of sight, the fish nailed it, that was pretty cool.