I'll be saying the same thing when i do finally make it out there with him LOL, He'll probably have to get a wrecker to pull me out of the cuddy cause i won't wanna leave LOL Take Care God Bless and Tight Lines LOL Donkey Dave From up North "The Backwards Frenchman" P.S. Are you going to that LCI tournament up on Champlain next week????

I still think the other photo you showed me is better.

John S.

What photo do you mean? The one that shows just how big the fish really is??? Think it should be shown with weights and measures???

OK an email has been sent to AJ... he's going to post a different photo (which looks more realistic) of this "football" salmon. In all reality this fish was 4lbs 9ozs... but the killer... it was only 21 1/2 inches. What a fatty. He jumped many times while bringing him in and was smart enough to stay in the prop wash trying to shake the hook. I didn't see it myself, but when John netted it he said I was VERY lucky to have landed it as the hook basically fell out in the net.
We had another on earlier in the day that had to have been bigger! I never saw the fish, but will swear that I have never seen one of those "yellow rods" bend so much at a hit... and stay just as bent until it shook the hook. That fish was instantly taking line off the reel and didn't look back. AND no it wasn't bottom.