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firstlight

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Re: Biggest fish you ever caught? How big was it?
« Reply #45 on: January 08, 2006, 11:16:31 AM »
8.25lb Rainbow
14lb. Steelhead
8.5 ft Sturgeon around 300 lbs
14lb Coho
42.5 Red Spring

Therest dont really matter.
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Re: Biggest fish you ever caught? How big was it?
« Reply #46 on: January 08, 2006, 11:37:36 AM »
12lb Rainbow (Manitoba)
24 lb Steelhead (Vedder)
7+ ft Sturgoen (Fraser)
17lb Wild Coho (Squamish)
15lb Hatchery Coho (Chehalis)
45lb Red Spring (Fraser)
60+ Lb White Spring (Vedder)

Just been lucky, and had a lot of help!! ;D
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Re: Biggest fish you ever caught? How big was it?
« Reply #47 on: January 08, 2006, 02:41:33 PM »
Steelhead: 27.5 lbs Bogaciel R. Washington
Rainbow: 18.2 lbs, Crawling Valley Alberta
Chinook: 58.6 lbs - Outside Nitinat Gap, BC
Coho: 26.2 lbs Stamp R. BC
Sockeye: 13 lbs even Alberni Inlet BC
Lake Trout: 72.6 lbs Husky Lakes NWT
Arctic Charr: 32 lbs (forgot  ::) NWT
Arctic Grayling: 4.65 lbs Fox Lake Yukon
Golden Trout: 3.2 lbs (forgot again ;D) Alberta
Brown Trout 17.4 lbs Flaming Gorge Utah
Walleye: 14.5 lbs Anglin Lake Sask.
Pike: 56 lbs McKenzie River NWT

Largest to hand to date: 1,465 lb BlueFin Tuna US/Canada Border 5 miles offshore. Great fight, but took days for the pain to go away!

Hoping to better most of these... hoping that is...

And aYup, agree with Big Steel, damn lucky, but putting in the time helps  ;)

Cheers,
Nog
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Re: Biggest fish you ever caught? How big was it?
« Reply #48 on: January 08, 2006, 08:04:05 PM »
Wow, Nog, some fishing excursions and out-of-the-world fishing experiences. Congratulation! That blue-fin must be worth a fortune for the Japanese sushi market.  :D  Are they quite rare this far up in the Pacific?
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Re: Biggest fish you ever caught? How big was it?
« Reply #49 on: January 08, 2006, 08:11:22 PM »
Aren't bluefins found off the Atlantic Coast ?
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Re: Biggest fish you ever caught? How big was it?
« Reply #50 on: January 08, 2006, 08:46:03 PM »
Caught the BlueFin while taking a day off from a Coastal Zone Management Conference in Nova Scotia over a decade ago. Cool boats, at least that day a fairly flat pond, and one MEAN rush chasing those things! That fish was sold commercially, as was the deal with the Skip. And it did indeed fly off to the Japanese market the next day (so we were informed anyway). We did get to carry off a few steaks though, and they were great! And the memories of that battle are something I'll carry to the grave.

The rest were generally targetted results, and most required dozens if not hundreds of outings. 'Course I don't really mind the task  ;) :D

Cheers,
Nog
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Re: Biggest fish you ever caught? How big was it?
« Reply #51 on: January 08, 2006, 09:26:36 PM »
largest salmon = 45-50 lb white spring
largest trout = 6lb rainbow on a dry fly
largest bull trout = 6 lb
largest dolly = 6 lb
largest steelhead = about 20 lb

largest commercial caught salmon = 69 lb
largest halibut = 110 lb

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Re: Biggest fish you ever caught? How big was it?
« Reply #52 on: January 08, 2006, 09:28:20 PM »
golden trout herd about hose on tv one time, cool looking fish arent the extinct now?
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Re: Biggest fish you ever caught? How big was it?
« Reply #53 on: January 09, 2006, 01:12:23 PM »
Quote from: cohokid on January 08, 2006, 09:28:20 PM
golden trout herd about hose on tv one time, cool looking fish arent the extinct now?

Nope:

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Golden Trout
Alberta's Golden Trout Management Plan was completed in 1995 for this 'species of special concern.' Alberta is the only Canadian province with golden trout. The species was first introduced in 1959 from its native alpine lakes in California. The plan is being implemented to conserve this unique species and at the same time provide some special fishing opportunities by way of restrictive angling regulations.
From: http://www3.gov.ab.ca/srd/fw/fishing/fishstat.html

Also: http://www3.gov.ab.ca/srd/fw/fishing/golden.html

And: http://members.shaw.ca/goldentroutalberta/goldentroutdescription.htm

Just a tad tough to get to  ;)

Cheers,
Nog


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Re: Biggest fish you ever caught? How big was it?
« Reply #54 on: January 09, 2006, 04:15:00 PM »
71 lb red .Queen Charlottes
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