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Topic: A really big king salmon story  (Read 4749 times)

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That's a nice story.  But the fish that Lundberg is holding in the captioned picture sure looks like a huge WSB?? :smt017


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I agree with you yakuza.  I would bet alot of money that is not a king salmon.  Look at the dorsal/adipose fin.  It is long.  Not like any king I've ever seen and my uncle has a 69 lber on his wall.


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Obviously you guys are kidding right?


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looks like a salmon to me....Brian, any thoughts?



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Hah!  They changed the picture.  The old one did indeed look like a WSB.  This one definitely is a king.

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yeah, that's a completely different pic!


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That would explain it.  The only problem I've always had with that picture is that the fish is 88 lbs.  While working for WDFW as an observer for Puget Sound commercial salmon fisheries we ran into a lot of very large late run Fraser kings.  That fish looks to me to be about 60, maybe 70 lbs.  The way he is holding the fish and hardly straining at all.  Who knows maybe the picture is lying, but that is just my gut feeling having handled kings that big. My job was to monitor bycatch (non-targeted salmon) during directed fisheries (in this case it was pink fishery and the kings had to back).  The biggest we handled was a little over 80 lbs. using a length/girth ratio.  It took two of us to lift it over the rail, although it was a live fish.  I'll post a pic of a 50-55 lb. king I threw over and an older picture of a fish that has to go over 100lbs. when I figure out how to post photos.  I'm still new to posting here.


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I agree Joe...a king but no way is that 88#s


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If someone can figure out the Record's e-mail system,  the writer might be interested in this discussion. I tried to use it, but it gave me a temporary bug, and didn't deliver the message.   Sounds like someone got back to him about the first photo.        Pete, the author, is a serious sportsman and gent, and on his part I'm sure it was an honest mistake.   


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I was thinking the same thing...I've seen a lot of pics of 50 lbers on Coastside and USA fishing and this fish looks more in that range.
May the fish be mighty and the seas be meek...


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  Well, I never saw anything where the paper announced the correction, maybe because they tend to do that in a obscure location,and I just read the paper online, but this seems to be the story to go with the WSB photo that was first shown with the Salmon story.  The WSB story is a good yarn too.:

http://www.recordnet.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060623/SPORTS05/606230328/1037/SPECIALREPORTS20
   


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Wait a second!  That was published last Friday.  A school of large WSB a mile from Fisherman's Warf in Monterey.  Did I read that right?

If the weather on the outside keeps looking so windy, I might have to change gears and go WSB hunting.

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Guys,

This is a reprint.  The bottom of the article states:

RECORD: 78-Pound sea bass
DATE: April 4, 2002
LOCATION: Monterey Bay FISHERMAN: David Sternberg

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Thanks Stu,  I was getting a little excited there.  I knew something wasn't quite right.

-Allen