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Originally posted by Charlie
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Originally posted by fishin_magician
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Originally posted by Charlie
quote:Originally posted by demco99
what gear do they hit these hogs on? what river would they be headed to?? skeena?
In that area? Absolutely anywhere from SEAK to California and anywhere in between, including B.C.! LOL
Really? A fish over 70 caught in Washington, Oregon or California? The stuff legends are made of I tell ya. Even the Fraser....one in very very very many ever make it to 70 lbs from the Fraser or it's tributaries. Northern BC Mainland Coast to AK, maybe, otherwise, it's a unicorn that don't exist elsewhere. Fuhgeddaboudit.
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Do “YOUR” HOMEWORK!!!
You can start here! LOL
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Done my homework there Charlie. There are very very few, if any that size that return anywhere south of the 49th Parallel, and very very few that size north of the 49th as well. The Skeena probably has the most of them, and if there were any significant numbers of these fish, we would see them--and they would turn up in Seine Nets, on the spawning grounds, etc. That picture in that link gets a lot of publicity, and it was only a dead carcass that they found and just one that size. As for the guys in the Haida Gwaii, they're finding some GIGANTIC fish this year, as they always do...so good for them!
Anyways, there's fact, and then there are unicorns. So far, evidence is that there are just 3 or 4 unicorns on the entire coast this year...all the way from Alaska to California. They all happen to have been caught in BC.
As for 50+ lb fish in the Harrison etc, I believe it when I see it, and there are no legitimate 50's caught in the lower mainland in the last 3 years---dead ones anyways...so these 50 + lb fish I keep hearing about in the Rivers never wind up dead yet I always hear these stories.....
People need to stop weighing fish with their eyeballs and tape them out or weigh 'em on a scale before they cut them up if they choose to kill them.
Anyways, just my opinions, and they're not necessarily right..but there's always my side, your side (which you're more than entitled to) and the what the truth really is is unknown. Anyways, from talking to the guys at the lodges I used to work at, there a few guides apparently at the lodges which need to learn how to tape a fish and conveniently weight fish with their eyeballs to suit themselves. To each their own.
Needless to say, it is fantastic that large fish such as these are being released. CONGRATS!!!!