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Massive Springs of a day gone by...
« on: December 02, 2005, 01:06:24 PM »


Taken from the Columbia.
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Re: Massive Springs of a day gone by...
« Reply #1 on: December 02, 2005, 02:19:39 PM »
WOW, thats some BIG fish! to bad they didnt let them go and reproduce :'(

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Re: Massive Springs of a day gone by...
« Reply #2 on: December 02, 2005, 02:38:05 PM »
We could only dream of catching one that big
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Re: Massive Springs of a day gone by...
« Reply #3 on: December 02, 2005, 02:39:02 PM »
Ionno about you guys but i wouldent really want all the vedder springs to be that big. I would spent after one or two fish.
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Re: Massive Springs of a day gone by...
« Reply #4 on: December 02, 2005, 02:52:25 PM »
i dunno about 12 lb test..
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Re: Massive Springs of a day gone by...
« Reply #5 on: December 02, 2005, 02:55:24 PM »
Come on... 12lb? How sporting is that? It can easily be done with 6... ;)
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Re: Massive Springs of a day gone by...
« Reply #6 on: December 02, 2005, 03:05:20 PM »
maybe a rope at the leat ;D
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Re: Massive Springs of a day gone by...
« Reply #7 on: December 02, 2005, 03:38:51 PM »
Did someone mention line rating?
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Re: Massive Springs of a day gone by...
« Reply #8 on: December 02, 2005, 04:05:05 PM »
 ;D I think the 12 pound test would snap like a hair if that monster shaked its head.
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Re: Massive Springs of a day gone by...
« Reply #9 on: December 02, 2005, 04:21:04 PM »
Too bad the Columbia was damed in the mid 50's and the majority of that salmon run was forever destroyed (used to be the biggest on the planet) but hey at least the Columbia doesn't flood as much and everyones got hydro power. :-X :-\   Hey but I read of a 95lbser caught and released in the Skeena a few years ago.
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Re: Massive Springs of a day gone by...
« Reply #10 on: December 02, 2005, 04:22:49 PM »
12 lb test would snap like dental floss on a fish like that. In fact, pretty much any rod anyone uses to drift fish in the LM would explode at the hook set.....
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Re: Massive Springs of a day gone by...
« Reply #11 on: December 02, 2005, 04:24:05 PM »
Did someone say floss? :o :-X ;)
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Re: Massive Springs of a day gone by...
« Reply #12 on: December 02, 2005, 04:24:31 PM »
I believe that there was a world record set on the Skeena a few years back for biggest chinook ever caught on a rod and reel.  Was somewhere around 97 lbs!!!!  I wish I could find a picture if it.  The only one I could find was in a magazine, and it was a replica of what the fish would have looked like!!! ;D ;D
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Re: Massive Springs of a day gone by...
« Reply #13 on: December 02, 2005, 04:29:49 PM »
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Re: Massive Springs of a day gone by...
« Reply #14 on: December 02, 2005, 04:35:08 PM »
Nice!!! :) :) :o But that wasn't the one that I was stalking about!!!  The one I mentioned was in Sportfishing BC Magazine.  It was caught by a GIRL!!!!! :o :o
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