45 Pound Skagit Chinook on a Twitchin Jig

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Re: 45 Pound Skagit Chinook on a Twitchin Jig

Post by RiverChromeGS » Sat Sep 07, 2013 3:32 pm

fish vacuum wrote:Some people would break it off once they realized they were outgunned by a large, protected fish.
45 minutes is a long time.
And would you break off a 28lb native steelhead on the coast if you were fighting it for that long? leave a nice long piece of leader, hook and weight handing from his mouth?

by the way 45 minutes is a dramatic exaggeration. It was probably no more than 20-25 minutes
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Re: 45 Pound Skagit Chinook on a Twitchin Jig

Post by Mike Carey » Sat Sep 07, 2013 4:20 pm

Anddddddd "Cut!"

That's a wrap.
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