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#134504 - 01/10/02 12:02 AM Your biggest fish let go?
trailrat77 Offline
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Registered: 11/23/01
Posts: 363
Loc: rowers seat
I am not talking about fish like Native S.H., which we should all let go, I am talking about mainly Salmon that you caught and had to let go because of state regulations. This comes to mind because I just developed some film from my trip to Seiku this past September and it has a picture of the 25lb King I caught and let go in front of the Caves. Before I let that beauty go I would of sworn that it would have killed me to do so. But after a nice long battle, on Silver gear, and reviving her for 3 or 4 minutes, that fish and I came to an understanding. I felt really good about releasing it. So what is the biggest fish you released........Because you HAD TO.....
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#134505 - 01/10/02 12:19 AM Re: Your biggest fish let go?
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Registered: 12/03/01
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Loc: manchester,Wa
DITTO labor day weekend fishing the tide rip in front of slip point let one go in the 20's. was totally jazzed, motor mooching a herring. Ben
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#134506 - 01/10/02 12:31 AM Re: Your biggest fish let go?
Chromeo Offline
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Registered: 10/29/01
Posts: 561
Loc: Kenmore, WA
30lb king
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#134507 - 01/10/02 01:04 AM Re: Your biggest fish let go?
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Registered: 03/13/00
Posts: 1865
Loc: Kelso Wa.
Me personally, a king of about 25 lbs. at Pt. Defiance.
While guiding in Ak. where the king limit is 1 per day for non-res. I had 4 guests on board, 3 kings (biggest being 32lbs.) in the box and we tripled up, 1 came unpinned but we got the other 2 to the boat, they were twins in the mid 40's, we chose the one that looked the biggest and unhooked the other frown the one we kept was 46 lbs.
I've also released a bunch of big halibut, voluntarily.

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#134508 - 01/10/02 01:06 AM Re: Your biggest fish let go?
silver hilton Offline
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Registered: 10/08/01
Posts: 1155
Loc: Out there, somewhere
I let a king that was 51 inches long go, in Tillamook bay some years back, because I already had about a 40lb hen and that was enough. Does that count?
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#134509 - 01/10/02 01:14 AM Re: Your biggest fish let go?
Divers Offline
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Registered: 04/21/99
Posts: 958
Loc: Seattle
30#+ king on a fly rod.

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#134510 - 01/10/02 01:14 AM Re: Your biggest fish let go?
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Registered: 12/03/01
Posts: 80
Loc: Olympia, WA
out on some river in AK that shall remain nameless.. three of us released probibly 20 kings between 35 and 50 lbs in one day. Personally I got one 30+ lbs on an 8wt fly rod... it was fun for about the first half hour... smile
and that was just the big fish.. It was a great feeling to let all those fish go!!

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#134511 - 01/10/02 08:59 AM Re: Your biggest fish let go?
Bob D Offline
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Registered: 03/24/99
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Loc: Port Orchard Wa Kitsap
Cape Beale off Vancouver Island! Kings from 25 to 35 in Late Augest. The Last year we were there and it was open we could limit so fast that we had to C & R just to make it worth the 5 mile run! You could let 5 to 12 fish go in a 5 hour stretch.

Also 1997 early Augest at Rivers Inlet. We were in private boats and the weather and fishing were the best Ive ever encountered! The rule was let it go if its under 30 because the 40's and 50's were EVERYWERE! Seriously the best fishing ever!

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#134512 - 01/10/02 10:26 AM Re: Your biggest fish let go?
Grass Hopper Offline
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Registered: 01/07/02
Posts: 81
Loc: Woodinville,Wa
I have hooked and landed a 77 lb king before. One year on the Kenai fishing silvers we hooked the mother of all kings. after 1 1/2 hours we released what we thought would go at least 80 lbs.

REMEMBER IF THE FREEZER IS FULL LET 'UM GO!
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#134513 - 01/10/02 10:46 AM Re: Your biggest fish let go?
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Registered: 07/06/99
Posts: 481
Loc: Seattle, Washington, US
40lb+ Chinook off Waadah Island while jigging for bottomfish with a 6-oz Krippled Herring. Was reeling up to make another pass and the line just went slack. Was a very interesting fight on my 6-ft fiberglass jigstick and low-gear Penn reel. I thought I lost the big buck a couple of times because I couldn't pick up line fast enough when it charged the boat. Gotta love them barbed hooks.

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#134514 - 01/10/02 11:09 AM Re: Your biggest fish let go?
Dr Pepper Offline
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Registered: 08/22/00
Posts: 214
Loc: Sequim, Washington
While fishing for summer-run steelhead I caught a 25lb king that I had to let go. It was quite a fight on my 1082 GL2. Whenever I have to release a fish I always think, "Well I didn't want to have to clean it anyways."

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#134515 - 01/10/02 12:18 PM Re: Your biggest fish let go?
Hey Yall Watch This Offline
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Registered: 03/05/01
Posts: 452
Loc: Olympia....beeyotch
I'd say the biggest animal caught on my line that I let go was an alligator (not sturgeon) that was about 250 pounds.

This year would be: 44 pound king, 42 pound king, 40.5 king, a buttload of chummies in the high teens low 20's (they seemed smaller this year wink ), but the one I wish I didn't let go was a 32 pound bright ass hen that I had caught immediately after catching and punching my card on a 35 pound buck. cool

It doesn't bother me to let any fish go. It only bothers me if the fish lets go before I get to let it go...lol laugh
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#134516 - 01/10/02 01:11 PM Re: Your biggest fish let go?
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Registered: 08/09/00
Posts: 12107
Loc: Hobart,Wa U.S.A
I think it was in 1995,I was fishin on a westport charter.That year was fin clipped coho only retention.I hooked and landed a king between 40 & 42 pounds that had to be released.Needless to say I was cryin like a little beeeyocht,but have been blessed by the fish god's every year since then.Good luck,
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#134517 - 01/10/02 01:59 PM Re: Your biggest fish let go?
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Registered: 01/26/00
Posts: 6424
Loc: Vancouver, WA
If you've fished the lewis in the fall over the last 5 years you'd have had to let go plenty of nice pig chrome fall fish and personally have let go several in the mid to upper 40's. But last year was the first year we've been able to retain them in the lewis, hopefully it stays the same in the future.
Keith laugh
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#134518 - 01/10/02 03:32 PM Re: Your biggest fish let go?
JacobF Offline
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Registered: 01/03/01
Posts: 801
Loc: Post Falls, ID
I've let go 9 and 10 foot sturgeon I've caught. smile

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#134519 - 01/10/02 03:48 PM Re: Your biggest fish let go?
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Registered: 03/07/00
Posts: 3009
Loc: Lynnwood, WA
An approx. 4 or 5 hundred pound ocean sunfish (one of the most bizzare looking fish you'll ever see!) off of the Coronado islands, Baja Mexico, summer of '95.

p.s. I like to eat fish as much as the next guy, but I'm not sure how many 40+ chrome pig kings I could eat in a year? wink

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#134520 - 01/10/02 05:23 PM Re: Your biggest fish let go?
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Registered: 05/04/99
Posts: 522
Loc: Kng
In 1996 I landed and released a 50+slab on the HOH
that we got right in front of Jimmy you should have seen the look on his face when we let him swim free to do his thing. eek

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#134521 - 01/10/02 07:13 PM Re: Your biggest fish let go?
Chromeo Offline
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Registered: 10/29/01
Posts: 561
Loc: Kenmore, WA
4 salt
whad you catch it on?
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P.S. Oh yea the coronados RULE!
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#134522 - 01/10/02 07:14 PM Re: Your biggest fish let go?
John Lee Hookum Offline
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Registered: 10/12/01
Posts: 2505
Loc: Area 51
I've released at least 2 Kings in the 35 pound
plus class. It was one of those hot days last
summer in a zipper hole on the south sound. Most
Kings I ever caught was last year. cool
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#134523 - 01/10/02 07:51 PM Re: Your biggest fish let go?
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Registered: 03/05/01
Posts: 452
Loc: Olympia....beeyotch
I don't eat fish, unless it smells like tuna :p

However, deep-fried cod, sturgeon, halibut, mahi mahi, and red snapper aren't too bad. Gotta watch out for those vicious snappers. wink laugh

If the padre doesn't give me a request for a fish, then I release them all, or give some fish to a co-worker who has 5 kids. I guess he's starting his on basketball team.
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