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11-24-2004, 06:20 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Brookings, OR/Gustavus, AK
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Ya, right!
Here's a post from the "webmaster" of another fishing web site. It's from a story about salmon fishing on the Smith River in Northern California and the alleged new world record Chinook. I can't believe they would publish something like this with no facts to back it up. No camera. No official wait. The guy is either lying or smoking something.
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November 4, 2004
... I was fun fishing with one of the guides below Society hole. My rod went down and just stayed down. We thought it was a snag so I maneuvered the upstream of the line and gave it a jerk. All of a sudden the line started moving and my reel started screaming.
It was definitely a fish, a very big fish! We battled that fish through four miles of river for almost three hours. Finally we were able to get it to the side of the boat. It was over a foot wide at the shoulders and you couldn't put your arms around it. We measured the king and released it. Naturally we didn't have a camera and neither of us could kill such a magnificent fish.
The weight tables put the monster salmon at 120 pounds. I did a little checking and found out it would have been a world record.
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11-24-2004, 08:23 PM
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Tuna!
Join Date: Sep 2004
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Re: Ya, right!
<petunia> hard to believe in alaska even never cali 
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11-24-2004, 08:50 PM
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Ifish Nate
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Tillamook,Oregon,USA
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Re: Ya, right!
"Four miles of river for three hours" I don't think so.
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11-24-2004, 08:53 PM
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Tuna!
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Southeast Portland/Gresham.
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Re: Ya, right!
speed fishing
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11-24-2004, 08:58 PM
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Join Date: May 2004
Location: Beaver Town
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Re: Ya, right!
So, Chetco, how is that river? One of the best rivers in the NW. Whoops. I shouldn't have said that. I do hope the Smith is getting more healthy.
Donna
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11-25-2004, 06:49 AM
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Steelhead
Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: milwaukie, or
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Re: Ya, right!
they just don't know the difference between a sturgeon and a salmon.
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11-25-2004, 07:27 AM
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Tuna!
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Presently at an "undisclosed location" in south central Asia
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Re: Ya, right!
Yeah............right!
I don't think so.
Although not confirmed, I have heard of biologists in Canada and Alaska finding carcasses of spawned (dead) Kings in the 100# plus range, but nothing approaching 120#.
Like you said, "Yeah, right!"
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11-25-2004, 07:30 AM
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Tuna!
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: Portland, OR
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Re: Ya, right!
My first question would be how a salmon fisher could NOT already know the state and world records..... 
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11-25-2004, 08:03 AM
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Ifish Nate
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Re: Ya, right!
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11-25-2004, 08:53 AM
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Ifish Nate
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Location: Keizer, Oregon
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Re: Ya, right!
Yea thats it,,,,I was fishing with my friend Mick Jagger and my wife, Morgan Fairchild,,,,,who, by the way, I have slept with. It was miles of fighting and it was a record. But I released.....yea thats it....
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I think that might have been the take out point.
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11-25-2004, 10:12 AM
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Chromer
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Re: Ya, right!
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11-25-2004, 01:03 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Vancouver, Wa
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Re: Ya, right!
Ya I caught a fish on the Smith and the pictured weighed 125 LB.. We submitted the shadow for a state record. Then I released it and what do you know Loch Ness sea monster ate it and I dropped the picture in the river and we capsized trying to fish the big picture out almost drowned and my fishing buddy lost his right leg to a gator before we could swim to the shore. I don't fish that river anymore it is way too dangerous.
Mike  The first liar doesn't stand a chance.
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11-25-2004, 01:11 PM
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Steelhead
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Salem/Siletz OR
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Re: Ya, right!
I had a similar experience except mine had a small wooden boy in its belly.
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11-25-2004, 01:18 PM
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Location: West Linn
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Re: Ya, right!
Quote:
My first question would be how a salmon fisher could NOT already know the state and world records.....
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I fish for salmon and I don't know any state or world records.
I for one believe this story. I want to comend him for releasing such an amazing trophy. 
I wish he would tell us more about how he was fishing. 10lb test,#2 hooks, corkie and yarn 50ft of mainline etc..... I think that this guy is the best. I wish I were him.
Happy Thanksgiving. BCF
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11-25-2004, 01:29 PM
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Tuna!
Join Date: Sep 2001
Location: water
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Re: Ya, right!
Anything is possible, but he must be a little off on the weight. it was most likely a typo (12lbs) with an extra 0.
NOT. Smith has big fish, but not 120lbs. and he'd of killed it for sure..
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11-25-2004, 05:58 PM
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Tuna!
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Portland
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Re: Ya, right!
Nor do I know the records for anything I fish for.
I'm also side by side with the "Grumpy Old Men" who released the giant catfish of their dreams back into the lake. I would be nothing but ashamed to say I killed the biggest fish ever seen in these parts. I'd take a nice picture and watch it swim away.
Would have to know the person to know whether his story is believable or not. Why not give him the benefit of the doubt and hope it is true? Couldn't hurt to have some bruisers like that spawning upstream........
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11-25-2004, 06:06 PM
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Sturgeon
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Newberg, OR
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Re: Ya, right!
moby dick....
pass the doobie!
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11-25-2004, 07:24 PM
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Ifish Nate
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: The Dalles Ore
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Re: Ya, right!
I think they need a BONG monitor on the Smith  
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