Just another story to throw in...me and my buddy were fishing the lower Elwah one day, within in sight of saltwater (you know, below the big rock). We were drifting for summer run steelhead, about late June. We drifed our gear for some time and each became aware of some rather stout line that we continued to hook and real in at the end of the drift. Neither of us could catch hold of the line to pull it out of the hole, until my buddie shouted that he had it and promptly wound it arount his hand. When the line got tight he gave a significant tug to dislodge the gear on the bottom, the tug was met immediately by a stronger YANK!, whereby my friend was pulled head first into the river. Unknown to us both, a 70lb Elwah king was on the end of the line (which had obviously broken a snagger off earlier), and proceeded to head back out to sea. To make a long story short, my buddy almost drowned, and had his knuckles cut to the bone by the line wrapped around his hand. Sutures were required to close up the lacerations. Never did see the fish.........