Yea guys this day for me is one for the books, maybe even once in a lifetime. Drove up friday night to camp along the quillayute system to hit it today. It was raining like crazy as we sat around the fire friday night. Woke up an hour before first light and lines in the water with headlamps on at maybe 6am.... no bites until about 7:30. My buddy get on a nice silver landed with no problems. 5 minutes later I get a tug so I set the hook but it completely felt like a snag up, so I real down and pull.... it was heavy!!! but moving slowly upstream.... so I pull back and it goes ape $#!+!!! Downstream for a bit then takes off up river. Note; I'm standing in waist deep water using 12# test and the fish is just pealing out line, so I hop out of the water with my friend right behind me with the net. I chased it maybe 200 yards up river and finally after 20 minutes of fighting it slid half way into our net. I run out and we both carry this fish onto shore!!! No way that happened. It's a 40lb Chinook monster biggest salmon I've ever caught! Let alone my first king in 8 years. Awesome!!!!

We fished most of the day and got 7 fish total with both my friends getting identical 20 lb kings. And the rest were nice silvers just for fun. Does anyone know a good place to mount this fish?

A nice couple of weekends for us as it just takes a bit of rain to bring them in.