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Thread: Monster of the not so Deep.
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11-06-2008, 11:05 AM #1
Monster of the not so Deep.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,446686,00.html
Oh yeah, that's a big one.
Wildlife officials in northern California last week came across one of the biggest Chinook salmon ever found in the state — a monster more than 4 feet long and weighing 85 pounds.
"We see lots of big ones," Doug Killam, a biologist in the California Department of Fish and Game's Red Bluff office, told the Redding Record Searchlight, "but this one was just bigger than most big ones — it was just spectacular."
The big fish had recently spawned and died, Killam said, and probably weighed about 90 pounds when it began its 100-mile swim upstream from the Pacific to the spot where it died on Battle Creek, a tributary of the Sacramento River near the town of Anderson.
The California sport-fishing record for a Chinook salmon is 88 pounds. In Alaska, where they're called king salmon, they get even bigger — the record sport catch is 97 pounds, while the largest commercial catch was a truly phenomenal 126 pounds.
"If someone would have caught this one, it probably would have been a state record," Killam told the Record Searchlight.
Ironically, the sad state of salmon spawning in the Pacific Northwest probably helped this one live a full life. Ocean commercial catches were canceled this year, and the river sport season on the Sacramento drastically shortened.Since then it's been a book you read in reverse, so you understand less as the pages turn.
The things you find on the net.
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11-06-2008, 01:13 PM #2
holy crap, man.
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11-06-2008, 07:34 PM #3
No way. That beast is unreal.
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11-06-2008, 08:12 PM #4
Can you imagine how a bear would feel finding that one?
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11-06-2008, 08:12 PM #5
Fat and happy!
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11-07-2008, 04:43 AM #6
A bear...!?? What about some chump with a 9wt...
Since then it's been a book you read in reverse, so you understand less as the pages turn.
The things you find on the net.
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11-07-2008, 10:24 AM #7
PFFFT. I could land that fucker with my 5wt.
assuming that I foul hooked him and he was already dead.
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11-07-2008, 01:08 PM #8
As a kid I remember seeing a fish like that while fishing with my Grandfather. It scared me so much I still have trouble going in the deep end of the pool by myself.
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11-07-2008, 03:20 PM #9
Heh, I remember water skiing and kneeboarding when I was a kid when we lived in Nigeria. After water skiing, we went fishing and my friend's dad caught a 6 foot barracuda in the same place we were water skiing. I did not water ski after that. I still get the heebee-geebee's water skiing even in a fresh water lake, when I am sitting out in the middle waiting for a pick up.
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11-09-2008, 03:55 PM #10
Pussy
...Its not that I suck at spelling, its that I just don't care
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11-10-2008, 04:28 PM #11
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