Any 30/75 Club Members out there?

[parker]

A personal goal of mine has always been to make the 30/75 club. That would be a confirmed 30 lb. steelhead and 75 lb. King.

Unfortunately, I am not a member yet! Just a 27/40 club member.

Any of you nice folks out there members? If so, shed some light and tell us about it!

Parker

[Osprey]

Here's my contribution to the poll:
Silver 20 lbs ( released)
Chum 25 lbs ( smoker)
King 56 lbs ( Dinner)
Steelhead 26.8 (Gutted)
All Washington fish

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[Big Willie]

Nope.

Steelhead: 10 lbs
Silver: 13 lbs
Chinook: 45 lbs

Some fairly large sticks

All Oreegone fish...Go Beavers!

[TH]

I have set more realistic (southern Oregon) goals.... 20/50 .. any 20# steelhead on the south coast is a trophy... likewise a 50# chinook.

Steelie #18
Coho #16
Chinook #47

I keep telling myself that this is the year for the 20# steelie... fished with a guy last year that landed a 20# hatchery fish on the Coquille system.. that was cool.

TH www.thcustomrods.com

Fun poll. Thanks Parker.

-Searun Cutt: 4 lbs. (way before their numbers dwindled)

-Steelhead: 20.5 lbs. (hen: 18 lb.)

-Silver: 19+ lbs.

-Chum: only 17 lbs.

-King: 70 lbs. + a few oz's (click on Who's R.T., pics - Kitimat River B. C.)

-Oregon Hen: 49 1/2 lbs. (Trask R.; Tillamook)

The one I want to upgrade is the steelhead. I've lost a couple in the 25 lb range; 1 right near the boat and the other near the bank . Help me Letty Potter! The Quinalt R. is so much closer than NW B.C. . - RT - Edit: thought hens would make a nice catagory?



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[Fishin Magician]

Here are my stats:

Chinook: handful of 50/60 pounders all released
Silver:12lbs
Chum:24lbs
Steelhead:24 and 26 lbs (measurement equasion)
Bluegill:2oz.

Hey Jon, I've heard you been trying hard to upgrade your gilly record of 2 oz. but they keep kickin your @$$. True? Get rid of that Shakespeare "Ugly Stick" and try your 10' steelhead noodle rod on them.

[finclipped]

I think the results need to be quantified, like Oregon only, Oregon & Washington or Alaska- BC. I have never been to Alaska-BC.

Steelie 15# (all right it was hooked in the tail) 12# fair hooked
Coho 17#
Chinook 34#
Keeper Sturgeon 55" (Never fished for chums.)

[Jennie@ifish]

What is the big deal about size?

It's not how big it is, but how you play the fish, right?

Thats what I'v always heard!

To post or not to post?
SUBMIT!

[Jennie@ifish]

I think that most women would agree with me. They would just be happy to have landed one.

[Jennie@ifish]

Of course, then again, it is good to keep track of those you have landed, to compare them, to hold them up against each other and say... ah.... that was a good fish.
I think I am going crazy.
I can't stand this no rain stuff any more.
Ah... the pretty trees and valleys and canyons, and the sweet birds in the trees, life along the river is......

MAKING ME LOSE MY MIND IF IT WON'T PLEASE
R A I N ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !

[First Bite]

My goals are closer to what TH said, maybe the 20/50 club. As far as big "Native Oregonian" fish, my best is:

Chinook: 42# Buck (caught on 8# line)
Steelhead: a few hovering around 20#'s
Mark

[Big Willie]

It's not the size of your fish, it's how you write your name...or something like that.

RT, I'd look at your ugly @%# all day for a 20lb steelhead!

[Kerry]

Well it has been a very good year! I retired in May, Just got back from 2 weeks in Colorado hunting elk. Hooked about 70 Kings this year, the big one on the Kitamat broke my 30# line, in Alaska Silvers and pinks were thick this year! 20# steelhead been there done that, Sturgeon, a huge monster of 11 feet 3 inches

[Moleman]

steelhead.......19# Sandy River
coho............13# Sandy River
fall chinook....41# Trask River
spring chinook..30# Willamette
Landed a 24# chinook at Marmot Dam on 6# test.

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[Fish4Fun]

Ok here is my best

Steelie - 25 1/2 (Cowlitz)
Coho - 16 (Cowlitz)
Chinook - 56 (Columbia)
Chum - 21 (Fraser River B.C.)
Keeper Sturgeon 59" (Columbia)

[alwyze fishin]

Well, let me think.

Steelhead 19+ native and released
Silvers 12+
Kings 65+ in Oregon ( my dad landed a 69 pounder that day)
Chum 20+ that’s a guess never weighed one all released
Sturgeon 47" (last weekend) 3 over sied never boated broke off 90 LB tuff line free floating in a boatafter hook up at NEVER MIND
And the list can keep going

As for a 30-pound steelhead I would call that a highbred or a very remote spot that never gets fished.

I would rather catch a five-pound steelhead that made my blood pressure sore to what a doctor would call heat failure then something that just wont to play tug of war.

its not the size of it that make's the fun of it.

Jeff



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[Snagly]

Steelhead: 21-22 hen (measurement formula) - Skeena, BC (hen); 19-20 buck (formula) - Alaska; 4lb buck (Feather River, CA)

Chinook: 24lbs (Alaska)

Coho: 12lbs (Skeena)

Halibut: 107 (Alaska). I'd like to note that the 'but was pulling the scale down to 112 -- enough to win the pot as the leader was 110 -- when some post mortem reflex action caused it to open it's mouth and two large rocks fell out. Imagine that -- a halibut that had rocks in it! And my friends accused me of CHEATING, too!

[DanS]

30/75, huh? Boy that's asking A LOT! Too much for my efforts, so far, but here's mine.

King: 40 lb Quinault

Silver: 22lb. Satsop

Chum: a half dozen 20-25lbs. Satsop

Humpy: 7lb. can't tell

Sea-Run Cutty: 26in./approx 5 lbs. can't tell

Steelhead: 21lb. Satsop

Can you tell I fish the Satsop a lot?


Fish on.....

[dawhunt]

Hi guys,heres mine
steelhead-22 lbs native released this year
in the columbia.
chinook-44 lbs Washougal
silver-18 lbs sitka alaska
chum-16 lbs hoodsport
sturgeon-11'1" bonniville dam ,this fish was NOT removed from the water,we waded out in about two ft of water to measure it, it was HUGE !!!

bob Dawson

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[slammin]

52lb chinook siuslaw river
30lb chrome hen last week Alsea River, Eggs
17lb winter steely Alsea
17lb summer McKenzie River
20lb coho Umpqua, released
never fished chums but I've caught legal sturgeon. Long way to go for the 30-75 club membership but I'm happy with any fish as long as it's not the northern pike fish minnow.


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[HOGTIDE]

24 / 66 is my current status
Mouth of Kalama Steelhead(24lb.s 11oz.)
Trask Tidewater King (Bright Hen..should've mounted, but ate it instead.)

[THE REEL HEY_YALL]

Not me, and I can't even imagine a 30 lb steelie.

I'm a 10-20-25-32 club member.
10lb steelie
20lb silver
25lb chum
32lb king

but my membership runs out when the season ends. I have to renew it next year.

[CtDrifter]

I am not there yet.

steelhead 13
silver 13
chum 18
king 19

Yes I know that is weak but oh well.
Ct

[Phish_on]

I'm at 10/50 right now.

Had to go to Alaska for the king. Biggest in Oregon was about 35lb.

Where do they have these 30 lb. steelhead ?
Get him on a fly rod !

[Wyndknot]

I'm a 20/72 member. Steelhead Main Stem
Nehalem, Kenai King. Wish I could post pic's.

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[parker]

30+ pounders routinely show up at the Quinalt Hatchery or in the nets.

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[WaterDog]

Steelhead - 19lbs - Summer run Willammette
Silver - 12lbs - Columbia
Chinook - 26lbs - several on the Willammette one on the Nestucca. Cant seem to catch'em over 26lbs.
Sturgeon - 260lbs or so - 8' at Astoria

Not as good as some of you, but that all I got!

[bswim]

Oh I suck so bad!!! LOL Actually, I'm new to all this. yeah, that sounds good!!
Mine is the 4/25 club.
4lb silver.(Carbon R. silver,its a sad small fish run)
25lb king.

[Mrdorkfish]

My brother Mike says this bright ThreeRivers hatchery fish wieghed 25lbs.......I know this was years ago but if you look at the month, not too long to wait till they start showing

Mrdorkfish

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[Fish4Fun]

For all of us that have been doing this for the better part of our lives its really not the big bucks, bulls, or fish but the memories that are created from being out there. At 40 I have been at this long enough to have caught some nice fish and shot some great bucks and bulls. So, it really isn't who is bragging here, but pulling up the memories of what we are passionate for. The experiance of being outdoors with friends and family and the things we catch and shoot shoud be icing on the cake for an outing. This is a great board with some exellent outdoors people on it.

My thoughts

Fish 4 Fun

[Spooled]

Sign me up. 4085 lb. (measurement formula) Toyota Chinook Camper I-5 near Eugene released (not by choice). 32.5 lb. Big Bertha Steelhead 3-PW + A wedge and bag. Not released, but thrown a couple of times. Oh, is this a fishing question?

[rob allen]

rainbow trout: 23 inches 5lb (noname MT lake)
brown trout: 24 inches. 4lbs (madison river)
lrgmth bass: 8lb9oz (silver lake)
smllmts: 3lbs (columbia river)
steelhead: 17ibs (measure equasion) (babine river)

Coho: 15 lbs (washougal river)
chinook: 10lbs Klickitat river
Chum: 10 lbs (nasselle river)
walleye: 5lb (horsethief lake)
sqaw fish: 3lbs (columbia river)
Whitefish 5lbs (deschutes river)
Ugly orange belly chub:5lbs (eastlewis river)
cutthroat: 2lbs (kelley creek)
bluegill: 1lb (lackamas lake)
brown bullhead catfish: 1lb (sauvie island)
yellow perch: 11 inches (pond off the columbia)
rock bass: 1lb (silver lake)
brook trout 11inches (MT lake)
Grayling 16 inches (bighole river)

[Wog]

Just a litte shy of the 20/20/50 Club:
Steelhead 17lbs. - Sandy River
Silver 15lbs. - Sandy River
King 49lbs. -Trask River

[DanS]

Dang Rob,

Your list of "large fish I HAVEN'T caught" might be shorter.....LOL. That's quite a variety!

Fish on.......

[rob allen]

just trying to prove i am better than everyone else dan *LOL kidding of course.
I actually feel really fortunate to have had the experiences i have.

Well Rob, a 10 lb. chinook huh? .... Bah ha ha ha ha ha. Just getting you used to the occassional ribbing handed out around here. Actually, that's a fine brace of personal bests Rob. .... I'm a native Montana boy; I moved here young but have made countless treks back to those roots for fishing and scenery. If you wouldn't mind e-mailing me which noname lake the big 'bow came from I'll reciprocate with a trophy river with bigger fish than the more publicized rivers like the Madison and Yellowstone. It's up in the NW quadrant and has the B.C. Gerard strain of giant rainbows in it. There have been two 'bows caught out of it that were just over 30 lbs.! Yes 30 (in the record books). One of those should upgrade the 'bests resume' for most anyone. - RT

Steelhead-15 lbs (Sandy River)Sand shrimp
Fly caught steelhead-13lbs (Washougal river)
Chum-20lbs (Miami River)
Silver-12lbs (Sandy River)
Chinook-33lbs (Trask river)

[rhansme]

Steelhead - 20.0 40in long

Chinook - 30.5

Silver - 16.7

The steelie was in a north coast river...

[Mrdorkfish]

GOT PICS?

MrDorkfish

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[ZaQ]

8/12 club for me!

I like em young!

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ZaQ

[Mr. Fisherman]

Well lets see now,

18# Silver, Ocean south of the Columbia,
32# halibut, just legal, Pacific Ocean.
48# carp, Junior World Record holder years ago. Snake River.
3#14 oz Small mouth bass, Idaho Lake.
12 trips without catching my first king. Guess I'm waiting for one big enough .

I would like to catch a Jack just to make me happy.
6 Trips and no steelhead , putin' in my time. Sooner or later it's always later...

54" Sturgeon! That was fun!

My .02,




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[Nuttinbutnet]

Not 30/75, but, all Oregon fish.

Coho- 18# Tillamook
Steelie- 25# Wilson
Chinook- 64# Trask

Close, but no cigar!!!!