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10-05-2005, 01:43 PM
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Ichthyomaniac
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Here and There
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My Biggest Hawg Yet! (pic)
Made a couple passes on my lunch break, and got into a big one!
This 35 foot long chinook is named Claudia, and my girlfriend towed her up from Salem for the annual SALMON FESTIVAL AT OXBOW PARK this weekend. If you've never been, it is a fun event centered around the Sandy river fall chinook run. There are educational booths, stuff for sale, music, live and dead salmon on display, salmon to eat, etc. and TONS of great stuff for kids.
MY ARM IS TIRED.
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10-05-2005, 01:49 PM
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Tuna!
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Salem
Posts: 1,085
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Re: My Biggest Hawg Yet! (pic)
Riverkeeper,
Hey, that thing is obviously not fin-clipped. You should have released it - what were you thinking!!!
Pescadote
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10-05-2005, 01:50 PM
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Ichthyomaniac
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Here and There
Posts: 2,945
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Re: My Biggest Hawg Yet! (pic)
Dude, they don't have to be clipped in the fall 
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10-05-2005, 01:57 PM
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Sturgeon
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Willamette Valley
Posts: 4,788
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Re: My Biggest Hawg Yet! (pic)
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Dude, they don't have to be clipped in the fall
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Are you serious? If thats really the case, I'm going to kill my fishing partner...
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10-05-2005, 01:58 PM
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Sturgeon
Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: South of Bend
Posts: 3,836
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Re: My Biggest Hawg Yet! (pic)
Whatcha get that monster with: Spinner or herring?
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10-05-2005, 02:04 PM
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Steelhead
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Portland, OR
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Re: My Biggest Hawg Yet! (pic)
No clip necessary in the Columbia before they closed it. I think the ocean still required it though.
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10-05-2005, 02:20 PM
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Steelhead
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Coos Bay, OR
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Re: My Biggest Hawg Yet! (pic)
Nope you can keep native chinook, just not native coho.
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10-05-2005, 02:21 PM
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Tuna!
Join Date: May 2002
Location: 45:29.265 N 122:18.377 W
Posts: 1,601
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Re: My Biggest Hawg Yet! (pic)
In the Sandy, all salmon must be fin clipped 
when you drag that thing to Oxbow, your gonna be in a heap of trouble boy!
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10-05-2005, 02:26 PM
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Sturgeon
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Newberg, OR
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Re: My Biggest Hawg Yet! (pic)
keeper,
it looks like you are being exited from the salmons body...ewwwwwwwww
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10-05-2005, 02:58 PM
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Ifish Nate
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: east, west, south and north somewhat
Posts: 3,408
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Re: My Biggest Hawg Yet! (pic)
D, will you ever get over her catching that monster hog at TBay? You know the one recentally featured in STS?
Now you are sinking to taking credit for yet another of her hawgs!
tsk tsk tsk
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10-05-2005, 03:20 PM
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Guest
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: Just downstream from the Hole O' Garbage'
Posts: 8,838
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Re: My Biggest Hawg Yet! (pic)
THAT DOES IT!!!!!
Ruinislleeper, you are always exaggerating!
That fish isn't an inch over 34'!!!
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10-05-2005, 03:22 PM
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Guest
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: Just downstream from the Hole O' Garbage'
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Re: My Biggest Hawg Yet! (pic)
Also, I don't see a black mouth.
I think it must be a coho!
And it should have been clipped to retain!
Bhhhhhadddd boy!
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10-05-2005, 03:27 PM
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Sturgeon
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: On The Seam
Posts: 4,925
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Re: My Biggest Hawg Yet! (pic)
If it wasn't a color picture I wouldn't have believed it. I really thought it would be a black and white shot :grin:
Congrats on landing that bad boy.
PS...How many quarts of eggs were you able to cure?
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10-05-2005, 03:30 PM
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Tuna!
Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: Seattle, WA
Posts: 1,248
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Re: My Biggest Hawg Yet! (pic)
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10-05-2005, 03:35 PM
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Guest
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: Just downstream from the Hole O' Garbage'
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Re: My Biggest Hawg Yet! (pic)
Well,
Upon further review...
I might be able to make out the slightest bit of black at the tip of the lower gum.
In referencing the Scientific manuals and reviewing the evidence, it appears this fish was a;
OMYKISS PORKOLONIUS A relatively rare form of Portland City Chinook.
And once the cropped nose and tail are added in, I have to admit that perhaps it is, indeed, 35'
I stand corrected.
Nevermind.
:grin:
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10-05-2005, 03:37 PM
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Ichthyomaniac
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Here and There
Posts: 2,945
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Re: My Biggest Hawg Yet! (pic)
Ha!
Notice again that I am holding the fish BEHIND me, so it appears smaller.
Although some friends ridiculed me, I am glad I bought the biggest beckman!
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10-05-2005, 03:58 PM
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Sturgeon
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Bend
Posts: 4,606
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Re: My Biggest Hawg Yet! (pic)
RK,
You must swing one heck of a fish bonker to give that hawg the wood shampoo! Must look like the one that eyeFISH uses! 
Holy Cow! I just looked at it again and it looks like it's eating some Portland sidewalk cafe diners! Hit that thing again!
You're going to need a sawmill to fillet that sucker as well!
TF
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10-05-2005, 04:13 PM
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Ifish Nate
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: Forest Groove
Posts: 3,246
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Re: My Biggest Hawg Yet! (pic)
Once again, the Murphy Jig proves deadly. Nice to finally see you posing with a fish that isn't a Thule. 
lnf
btw, lemme know if a seat opens up for Friday.
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10-05-2005, 05:26 PM
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King Salmon
Join Date: Jul 2000
Location: On the BIG River, Columbia Co.
Posts: 11,112
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Re: My Biggest Hawg Yet! (pic)
Did YOU really get it....?
Or
Was it a hand-off from that beauty in STS?
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10-05-2005, 05:39 PM
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Chromer
Join Date: Feb 2004
Posts: 615
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Re: My Biggest Hawg Yet! (pic)
The real question is did you execute a "wilson" before landing her. 
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10-05-2005, 07:17 PM
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Tuna!
Join Date: Oct 2002
Posts: 1,314
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Re: My Biggest Hawg Yet! (pic)
Weekender - HAHA  that was too funny!
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10-05-2005, 08:30 PM
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Ifish Nate
Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: Coburg, Or.
Posts: 2,580
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Re: My Biggest Hawg Yet! (pic)
Duuuuude that's what I'm talkin' about :grin:
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10-05-2005, 10:41 PM
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Sturgeon
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Florence
Posts: 4,218
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Re: My Biggest Hawg Yet! (pic)
Red eyes......my god it has red eyes......it must be eeeeeeviiiillll 
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10-06-2005, 12:03 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Camas, WA
Posts: 1,638
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Re: My Biggest Hawg Yet! (pic)
Quote:
Hey, that thing is obviously not fin-clipped. You should have released it - what were you thinking!!!
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It has to be a missed clip. That fish has WAY too many anatomical deformities to be a native fish. Either that, or it was hatched somewhere in the Hanford Reach! 
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10-06-2005, 06:15 AM
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Chromer
Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: Fargo, ND
Posts: 554
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Re: My Biggest Hawg Yet! (pic)
That kind of looks like a TULE to me....the fisher that is, not the fish!!!! Just kidding man. You crack me up man! 
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10-06-2005, 07:01 AM
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Ifish Nate
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Milwaukie
Posts: 2,727
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Re: My Biggest Hawg Yet! (pic)
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10-06-2005, 07:40 AM
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Sturgeon
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: On the river...
Posts: 4,169
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Re: My Biggest Hawg Yet! (pic)
WOW... I'd need a bigger knife... 
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