Does my hart good to see an older couple out on a fishing adventure like that.




Ya did yell at em didn't ya


gdmit NOOO Loww an to the Fkin LEFFFFT realrealreal

Beautiful fish!

Your "color" shot is dynamite!


Beautiful fish!

That was like being there..thanks

I love that silver bling under-the-water shot. Killer!

Very slabish!

Good Job Barb!

where are they from?

Fish like that are what has kept me coming back for 22 years now, gets in your blood.

A fidy pound King to me is WAY more impressive than a #20 Steelhead.

Day 2 finally put me on the board. Got brave and dug the good camera outta the waterproof bag during the brief sunbreaks. Old Harbor really is a stunning setting to wet a line, surrounded by majestic peaks 360 degrees... and nearly always trolling a stone's throw from shore.





Marked several fish and had several drive-by's on whole bait, then hours of nothing. Switched up and trolled thru the same water to show 'em something a little different.... PAY DIRT!









No where near as big as Barb's but after more than 24 hours since landing the last salmon, it was a well-earned fish.

It's highly possible that this fish was a CR fish perhaps headed for the Hanford Reach.

My apologies for low-holing the guy who would otherwise catch this potential URB at Buoy 10 this August... or the guy fishing upriver boots in the Reach.

That is cool to be soo close to shore. And what a shoreline!

Fish Doc - How can you tell this fish originated in the Hanford Reach?

It appears to be missing some of it's adipose fin, although it's hard to discern from the photos. But if that's the case, it's probably not from the Hanford Reach. Most of the fish produced in the Reach are wild fish.

Nice fish nonetheless! Thanks for sharing the wonderful pics.

I can't... I was just speculating. URB's are a white-jawed stock of fall chinook. The fish is too far away to be a CR summer and CR springers have dusky grey/black jaws.

The only thing I know for sure is it's NOT an Alaska fish. There are no wild stocks of white-jawed kings in Alaska.

The adipose was most assuredly intact.

I did see a 43# clipped fish taken by one of the other boats.

Wow, nice pictures and nice fish

What an amazing king! What is the mark on the side of the fish from?
Neal

NAH... unless of course you include the Kaluida Boys





And just in case anyone was wondering....

ALL hatchery fish MUST die!

Dandy fish !
Those are the images you want in your mind's eye as you anticipate the next takedown.

Resurrecting this this thread as an example of how far things can go south in a matter of only TWO chinook generations.

The BigBoy is likely a Skeena king originating from Kitsumkalum stock. Those fish are gone... gone... GONE.

This is from a report I copy/pasted from BC...

Skeena chinook in 2024 saw what may be their worst return on record. This continues an almost 15-year downward trend. It is interesting how Alaskan and northern B.C. chinook abundance has diverged from southern B.C. and the U.S. states of Washington and Oregon, which have seen improving abundance in the last couple of years. This is not unusual. We have seen this in the past. A decline in chinook abundance often begins in their southern range and moves north over a decade or more.
Recovery also usually begins in the south and gradually moves north in response to changes in their marine environment. Will chinook abundance in the north eventually improve as many southern chinook populations have? All we can do is hope, while protecting the habitat and getting as many as possible back to spawn every year.