BIGGEST Steelhead Poll

[parker]

Nice topic on the biggest kings. Let's make another thread on your BIGGEST steelhead, kept or released!

27 pound Quinault River steelhead caught in 1996.

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[rob allen]

17lbs Babine river BC all wild and caught on a fly.

[dawhunt]

21#'s Washougal River,Jan. 2001 My biggest ever.
Bob

[STRIKE ZONE]

21.5lb native buck on the upper Quinault first trip down blind.Gin clear water with a Oregon cheese / Dark roe rag.The year was 1999 February
14th.Good luck,
STRIKE ZONE

[Hooker]

A chrome 18 lb native hen in April on a Willamette Valley river. Bobber and jig. My biggest to date.

[Irie1]

18.5# brat at the conlfuence of the Snake and the Clearwater rivers at the R R bridge, fall 1999.
23#(wieght by measure)nate at Three Mile Rapids on the Snake River at Asotin

[SandyRiverRon]

20# Summer Steelhead....Sandy River May of 1985...8# main...6# leader, never forget that day.

[Canyon Man]

26.5lb. nate(by measurements) on a local zipper in 1999. 20lb hatchery summer on the cowlitz in 1997. [img]graemlins/applause.gif[/img]

I didn't weigh them but I have caught several in the 42"-45" range. In the creeks I fished in SE Alaska most were around 36".

[Bounty Hunter]

9 pound (estimation) winter hatchery fish on Eagle Creek. Got that monster on a pink worm in the cliff hole.

[CATCH AND EAT]

The blind squirrel hooked up a 14.5lb steelhead trolling diver and bait in the carver slot above the bridge on the Clackamas. Got it New Years day in 2001. Nice Buck.

[Ratbaby]

15lb out of Lewis River in July of this year.But I am predicting a bigger one this winter. Maybe 17lb.

[greenbuttskunk]

20-1/2lb. chromer from the Salmon River in upstate NY
dead of winter, colder that all get out.
GBS

[Tanner]

Big Native Buck - Aprox 20 lbs - Hooked by me and landed by my wife in April of 2000 on the upper Nestucca River. Caught and released on a Lami 9'6
4-10 lb spinning rod with 8lb main line. Bobber and Jig.

My personal biggest was a 17 lb hatchery buck caught on the Necanicum River on a bobber and jig (same rod and line weight as above) Winter of 1998

[Gooey - Bob]

26 1/2 pound cought at the mouth of the sandy river in 1984 with Chris Sessions weighed at Larrys sporting goods in gresham in those days, Dan Augest did the mount and it still hangs on the wall in my den. she fought like a alaska king

Gooey - Bob

[jokester]

Caught my biggest fish plunking for summer steelies on the Columbia last year. Didn't get a chance to weigh it as it was a nate and I was trying to revive & release it, but the guys there gauged it around 13 lbs. Not a huge fish...but boy did she put up a heck of a fight :shocked:

- jokester

[rola76]

19 lb hatchery buck on the Klickitat. He was taken on a brass/orange spoon in some flat H20. Pretty fun fish on a 9' feather-light casting rod!!

[Highliner]

43.5" X 24.5" native buck January 30, 2001. According to the formula came in over 33lbs. Could have been the new Washington State winter record? Mabey. Caught, measure, photographed and released unharmed.

[notaclue]

well i have only caught one and it was about
10 lbs. i guess one is better than none.

[husker]

15# anchored with k10 mouth of the cowlitz.....mid summer long time ago

[driftphish]

17 pound hen on the sandy. caught on roe.

[fatfish]

January 20, 1980 East Fork of the Lewis very cold and foggy. Oh yea, 44.5 inches and 32 lbs ? oz chormer. Time has taken a toll on the memory but the experience and excitment lives on. Sunrise corkie with yarn and 10# maxima

[Wright Angle]

17 Lbs 1988 Columbia river, Summer Steelhead, hatchery.

17 Lbs 1991 Columbia river, Summer Steelhead, nate. What a fight!

17 Lbs 1993 Columbia river Summer Steelhead, hatchery.

17 Lbs 1996 Columbia river Summer Steelhead, hatchery.

I'm starting to get the impression that they don't come any bigger!

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[justasillyolgirl]

22# hatchery buck, Clackamas, summer 2002. 8'6" light to med rod, garbage old shimano spincast with 12# main 8# lead, red corkie w/peach and white yarn.
whoooohaaaaa what a rush (pulled my arm muscle setting the hook)

[NAUTI-NOTIONS]

37" buck.... bonked

[fishingfirst]

Not exactly caught solo........21 lb on the South Fork Coquille River, 1985. I hooked it and played it for about 10 minutes, it made a monster run into the rapids and broke me off. As I was rigging up, the guy next to me hooks a fish and horses it right up, not even a one minute fight. As I was cursing my bad luck, he asks me what color corkie I was using......he had hooked through the eye of my teardrop sinker (didn't know about slinkies and pencil lead back then)! It was a very nice fish, the largest steelhead I have had a part in. At least I got to see it, the worst part was watching it go into another guy's truck!

Scott

[Steelie28]

14# native buck on the upper Nestucca February 2001 on a cab egg fly. Hooked another beast that same day that rapped me around a large snag and busted me off. I love fishing up there for the late winter nates.

Steelie28

[pearl]

19# Hatchery buck, 44" long, Summer fish. Camas Slough below the mouth of the Washougal. Back trolling a blue pirate wiggle wart back when wiggle warts were wiggle warts.

[RichH]

I've landed a couple of 40" class fish but no weights for you as they all went back in.

Last year I took pity on a fishing partner since he had only landed 1 to my 4 at one point and I handed off a 39 1/2 inch fish. [img]graemlins/dork.gif[/img]

I have a photo of that on my desk at work. Got with my at that time brand new TH rod.

[Fishfeet]

FishingFirst, Now that was a good story!!

[ifish4fun]

16# hatchery on the JohnDay river with a Wiggle wart Oct. 2001

[First Light Bite]

Native 19.5lb. buck in the upper Trask at the slick rock hole January 16, 1981 using roe. I knew that fishermans log book would come in handy some day. Wow that was a good year, oh wait I think I used to do more fishing than working then.

[River Ranger]

Clackamas River about ten years ago got a native steelhead that we estimated to be right around 25 pounds,no joke! This freak was huge.Caught in april fish was pretty red but man what a fight. The adipose fin was the size of my head!

R.R.

[Silver Hilton]

22.5 lbs, hatchery, Aberdeen area river, 11/3/01. Early winter fish, probably the hottest steelhead I've ever fought.

[FishinTechnician]

25lbs 401/2" Buck on Christmas Day 1973 from the Nehalem. Weighed on a cert. scale at the market on Sunset Hwy. Caught two others that year that went 21 lb from the Trask and 20lb Summer from the mouth of the Cowlitz.

[FishinTechnician]

25lb 401/2" Buck from the Nehalem on Dec 25, 1973 on an orange Okie Drifter w'green yarn and eggs. Weighed on certified scale at market on Hwy 26. Sorry I kept it, but that's what we did in those days. Also caught a 21 Buck from the Trask and a 20 lb Summer fish from the mouth of the Cowlitz, all in that same great year. Haven't caught a 20 lber since.

[RogueFishr]

21.5# caught on the Rogue and 2 years later, in the same spot, released one 39" long and 21" girth.


RF

[FallRiverGuy]

Don't know the weight, but it was a 36" thick native buck caught from the Alsea on a Blue Fox spinner in 1998.

[Green Willie]

21 lbs, Washougal River, April 1990. Borrowed friend's driftboat and caught the fish on a blue pirate #35 rattling hot shot. 10lb line and what a fight. This was a unique fish in that it had a clipped adipose and right pectoral fin. WDFW biologist reported that the fish was lost, as it was supposed to go to the Sandy River.

[PASteelheader]

19.5# (after gutting & gilling) hatchery, South Santiam 1989.

[id. painter]

22 lbs. Clearwater river. 1979, native buck. My very first steelhead. id. p.

[Streetwalker]

22 lbs hatchery buck, Deschutes , October 2002

[Fishfeet]

18# on nightcrawler, crawdad tail,& pink yarn. 8# maxima, 6.5' fiberglass/graphite composite w/ a beat up old Shimono spinning reel. Got him in the lower end of the Siletz gorge near Sunshine creek, bout 1986 or 87. Went swimming for that pup. Ended up eatin` the guy after all that great fight. Been feelin` guilty ever since. His picture sits on my desk here at work to this day. Bob.

[Mtn Man]

22# Clearwater buck....first one ever. On the same trip (lunchtime, only an hour) my dad caught a 19# and a 22#. Good lunch :grin:

MM

[steelheadslayer]

14 lb. summer run, Columbia R. using spinglo and sand shrimp.

[Private-Aye-Fish]

A bright 18 lb native on Molalla River. Corkie and green yarn.

Over 20's. Columbia River "nates," spinner fishing
below Bonneville. Purtiest fish on the planet. :smile:

[SteelieSteve]

18# chrome hen Sandy February 1984. What a fight!!!!!

[C-lice]

43" length, 23" girth native buck, South Fork Coquille, 3-23-93.

Back in the 1960s a friend of mine's grandpa took 4th place in a steelhead derby in Coquille--with a 32# steelhead. :shocked:

[SSPey]

North Umpqua

15 lb wild buck (hot fish!)

on the fly

[peter frederick]

22# Native on the Lewis River.

[Clackamas Drifter]

My biggest steelehead to date, which was actually the first fish I ever caught salmon/steelehead fishing was a 32inch summer steelehead out of the clackamas river