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#721895 - 11/30/11 04:39 AM Re: Who's officially in the 50+ club? [Re: ColeyG]
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Registered: 02/16/00
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Loc: The Coast or the Keys !!!
Fred, You are right, you got to fish alot of places when it was the real deal !!!
Anyways My biggest have came from the harbor and tillimook !

Satsop 2002, the last year Kings were open 56 lbs.....Weighed at Oly fish market about 6 hours after it was caught..... A big beautiful Buck, caught on Bobber and eggs, 65 lb power pro and 30 lb Maxima ultra green leader and a 5/0- 3/0 Vison hook superfly style tie up ! 45 minutes of profanities and insanity until my Homeboy Decker was able to put it into the net !!!
We hooked and landed 7 over 40 lbs on that particular day........What a fu..ckin day baby !!!

Trask River Oregon 1994, 54 lbs on Bobber and eggs !!!! weighed at the guide shop, they use tohave a great pic of that one on the wall of shame there......................

Humptulips.......from the 80's until present day, so many big kings to remember but I have never personally landed one over 50 lbs there and you would think that I would have as much tme as I have spent onthat river. But many over 30 lbs and a few over 40 lbs.........

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#721904 - 11/30/11 10:33 AM Re: Who's officially in the 50+ club? [Re: kwikfiks]
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#721910 - 11/30/11 10:57 AM Re: Who's officially in the 50+ club? [Re: shortbus]
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2 for me...sekiu and westport. But back then you'd see a couple pretty much every day.

Anyone remember about 1982 or so when that guy in BC fought a king for two days followed around by a news crew? He ran the first boat out of gas, swapped boats and finally got the fish near the bank but nobody had a net big enough. They tried two nets head and tail and it snapped off. Estimates were over 100 pounds.
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#721911 - 11/30/11 10:59 AM Re: Who's officially in the 50+ club? [Re: stlhead]
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Yeah, that one was up at River's Inlet, I believe...estimates were up to like 120, or something like that?

Fish on...

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#721912 - 11/30/11 11:06 AM Re: Who's officially in the 50+ club? [Re: stlhead]
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Originally Posted By: stlhead


Anyone remember about 1982 or so when that guy in BC fought a king for two days followed around by a news crew? He ran the first boat out of gas, swapped boats and finally got the fish near the bank but nobody had a net big enough. They tried two nets head and tail and it snapped off. Estimates were over 100 pounds.


That was on the Kenai. Saw the guy 2 days in a row as I went downstream from my fish camp. A lot of watchers from the bank as he had it brought up to the waters right next to Centennial boat launch area. TV cameras and all got to watch the loosing of it. From some witness's there it doesn't sound like it was as big as everybody was hoping.

fp

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#721947 - 11/30/11 01:26 PM Re: Who's officially in the 50+ club? [Re: fp]
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#722000 - 11/30/11 04:17 PM Re: Who's officially in the 50+ club? [Re: gregsalmon]
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Originally Posted By: gregsalmon


If I am not mistaken thats Captain Quilback Hawgslayer supreme Master of the Dead Drop Herring.

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#722093 - 11/30/11 07:58 PM Re: Who's officially in the 50+ club? [Re: Todd]
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Originally Posted By: Todd
Yeah, that one was up at River's Inlet, I believe...estimates were up to like 120, or something like that?

Fish on...

Todd


I remember that. There was one at RI that broke off.

IIRC that guy was a friend/aquaintance of Salmonella.
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#722099 - 11/30/11 08:18 PM Re: Who's officially in the 50+ club? [Re: fp]
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Originally Posted By: fp


That was on the Kenai. Saw the guy 2 days in a row as I went downstream from my fish camp. A lot of watchers from the bank as he had it brought up to the waters right next to Centennial boat launch area. TV cameras and all got to watch the loosing of it. From some witness's there it doesn't sound like it was as big as everybody was hoping.

fp


Fred's got it right.... well, at least I can verify that his version actually happened. I once had a copy of the footage on VHS, but I think one of my kids or my ex- recorded an episode of Barney or Tele-Bubbies over it.

The date in question was July 12, 1989
The angler was Minnesota tourist Bob Ploeger.
The Kenai River guide was Dan Bishop.
The battle took 37 hours before the fish earned its freedom.
The battle was rather pitiful.... there was almost no load in the rod thru most of the battle. While Ploeger was being interviewed mid-fight, the rod tip was only bent half way to the ferrule at mid-shaft.... about what an 8-10 oz cannonball would accomplish.

The netshot was an absolute cluster... two nets converged to corral the fish from above and below. At the fateful moment of the double scoop, one net hit the leader and .... PING!

Game over after 37 hours!
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#722100 - 11/30/11 08:21 PM Re: Who's officially in the 50+ club? [Re: eyeFISH]
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Doc, you are the Rain Man of fishing statistics. Impressive memory.
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#722102 - 11/30/11 08:39 PM Re: Who's officially in the 50+ club? [Re: ColeyG]
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#722104 - 11/30/11 08:45 PM Re: Who's officially in the 50+ club? [Re: kwikfiks]
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#722106 - 11/30/11 08:53 PM Re: Who's officially in the 50+ club? [Re: Dan S.]
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The question was about "1982", not 1989...and it was about "BC", not Alaska...and in the early 80's at Rivers Inlet, BC, there was a guy who fought a fish all day and all night, and into the next day, when it finally broke his line.

Fish on...

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#722108 - 11/30/11 08:56 PM Re: Who's officially in the 50+ club? [Re: Todd]
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Loc: Olympia
I have the original issue of Fishin Holes with the story in it, I'll try ad scan and paste it up if I can find it. The fish was hooked by a guide out fun fishing with fellow guides after work. Fish came close more than once but finally broke off , was for sure estimated well over 100.

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#722109 - 11/30/11 08:57 PM Re: Who's officially in the 50+ club? [Re: FGB]
Todd Offline
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That's the one, FGB...unfortunately my boxes of FH's from those days are in boxes somewhere that I sure as hell can't find...I think somewheres I have every issue from 1878 thru the middle 80's...

Fish on...

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#722128 - 11/30/11 10:16 PM Re: Who's officially in the 50+ club? [Re: Todd]
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Originally Posted By: Todd


I have every issue from 1878 thru the middle 80's...

Todd


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#722141 - 11/30/11 10:35 PM Re: Who's officially in the 50+ club? [Re: cobble cruiser]
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#722145 - 11/30/11 10:49 PM Re: Who's officially in the 50+ club? [Re: eyeFISH]
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Originally Posted By: eyeFISH
The battle took 37 hours before the fish earned its freedom.


Seriously?

That's nearly an entire work week.....

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#722149 - 11/30/11 11:04 PM Re: Who's officially in the 50+ club? [Re: Robbo]
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Originally Posted By: Robbo
Gotta love those big nooks. It's what keeps me going all summer long. That, and a lot of coffee cool
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Linda Dally's 64 pound gagger from Cape Ulitka




Wow, time machine memories from Capt Robbo...epic Chromer on a Folgers n Donut run. Sure bigger Bucks have been landed but that fish was a HEN! Wonder what the world record Saltwater Hen is cause that fish was a legit 70+ when it hit the deck after the most baddass net job I have seen to this day, fish had to be 4-5 feet under the surface and still green but we saw one of the two Giant Gamis was busted in half and the other was hanging by a thread so it was do or die and the Capt got er done...pulled my only 50+ w Bob way back on the lower Duc in October on a Kwikkie.

Cheers


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#722167 - 11/30/11 11:51 PM Re: Who's officially in the 50+ club? [Re: summerrun]
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Registered: 10/31/09
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Les was a good guy,

he was definitely in the club.


I just checked, his IGFA record still holds to this day...



Edited by Plus1 (12/01/11 12:00 AM)

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