Don't want to excite you BB ( if it is possible at your age ) but we have 40 lbs around. Chehalis and tribs to be sure biggest I have gotten lately was about 37. Each year in broodstocking we got several over 40 on the Satsop.

As CM said it was the same above on the Columbia above Grand C., it took a big strong fish to go up the interior Columbia and spawn. Those genetics are gone.............but can you get them back? Sure..........kinda. Do history and find when the last ice age was and then guess on how long it took for the fish to repopulate. I think if harvest is not in it a few hundred years, with modern harvest ( especially ocean ) nah maybe a few thousand years and likely not. Your going to have Chinook just not big guys.