i caught my first 50# class chinook today caught it in tidewater about a mile off the salt. as i was wading downriver to my spot(first time there this year), another guy was wading down with my buddy and myself...you know the guy, won't shut up about how many he caught yesterday, what type of terminal set-up, yadda yadda yadda...he looks at my drift gear and tells me to totally eliminate my lead-all of it. so to get him to shut up i oblige and lo and behold BAM!! first cast i'm gobbled up by a 12# bright chum hen. release it and this happens several more times, some on eggs under a float in the really snaggy areas, then out of nowhere some big ass kings move through my slot and it was on. besides papa grande i also landed a few low 30's and saw some other behemoths make their way up through the shallow riffle at low tide which was about 80 yards below where i was drifting. all in all i came home empty handed(a couple of pictures though) since i was targeting silvers, but oh well, i just caught the largest salmon of my life...i'm going again wednesday

...and I wish I could go with you!

Sounds like a great day. Congrats.

Uhh, let me get this straight......

You caught a 12lb chum, a 50 lb Chinook plus several more Chinook in the 30lb range, but you came home empty-handed because you were targeting coho!!??

Sounds like Philpac33 was on the Fraser!

Only place I know where you can catch and release several kings over 30 lbs because you know there are alot bigger ones in there

can't keep kings or chum on the fishery, maybe some poachers may stash them in the brush and grab them on the way out, i'd prefer to stay out of court, the pictures are all the proof i need. matter of fact there were a couple of 40+ kings dead on the gravel bar on which i stood...back at my local fishery today, landed 3 chum on three consecutive casts, limited in half hour (zero foul hooks, a fishing board member whom i met today along with several others as witness) shut ye trap, pretty simple, doubt your own skills, not mine