While looking over my shoulder, many of my fellow employees insist the picture of the blond girl holding the monster salmon is a product of photoshop. Is there any other pictures to prove them wrong???

what picture?

This one:

That fish came out of Bob's boat , T.R.B.O. a year or two ago from the Kasilof River.

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enhancing photos is pretty easy and common nowadays. Sometimes you can't see people's hands that are supporting the fish. Remember that set up of a photo can make the same fish look huge in one shot and much smaller in another. Holding the fish as close as possible to the camera is the best way to make it look huge. In this photo the fish looks bigger than the girl....I think in the Kasilof the fish are typically 20-30#.

thats easy look fo PS layers....

That's a bonafide wild late-run (ie July) Kasilof king! They are every bit as big as their Kenai cousins with similar run-timing. Just a much smaller run that thankfully doesn't get near the pressure of the lower Kenai.

The "average" early run Kasilof springer nowadays is more likely to be a 10-20# hatchery runt, but the rare clipped fish will go all the way to 40#-plus. Before hatchery production was ramped up, the average wild fish in the early run was 25-30#, and you could count on a handful of 40# plus every season.

Yep .. been photoshopped.


It's been .... cropped

Here's the original photo straight from the Mavica disk saved on our hard drive:



Here's the fish the fella just seen on the right caught a few holes above:



Here's the three of them standing in front of the fish instead of vice versa:



Here's one her son caught the next day, he weighed 40 the fish 41:



Here's dad with another:



Here's dad & son, Fred and his dad with the four killed for the day:



You can also see some pix of other 50+ Kasilof kings they've caught, 40+ in Washington, some jumbo halibut, and some 20+ steelies in their own photo album in the Regular's section of the gallery.

fNp and GP2 .... a verified 43 lb. clipped fish last week by a bankie in People's Hole. We landed one day before yesterday in mid 30's that wasn't clipped. But certainly not the jumbos that we often find in July!

The first run fish usually average around 15-20 lbs ... they're basically springers. The second run fish, like WA fall fish, run larger and usually average 25-30.

More proof? Send a SASE and when we return home this fall, we can send a hard copy of a photo of the fish being certfied in Soldotna so Jennifer could get a Trophy Fish Certficate from the state of Alaska to hang with the picture.

Yeah okay...

But is that her real hair color?

Thanks, Bob. This ought to do just fine.

I don't question the fish size at all. As you can see though the fish hanging on the hook in relationship to the people look much smaller....say half the length of the people as opposed to the close ups which make them appear to be almost as long as the people are tall. Just the compostion of the photo that makes them look different.