Enormous Fishes

So I went fishing with Kelli's dad and his friend today up by Woodland bar and guess what? I caught my first Slammin Salmon! He is ugly, black, and huge. We estimate him to be around 35# and I can't wait to eat him. He is a Tule and depending on what the meat looks like he may get smoked or if he turns out to be pink inside I will make steaks out of him and grill him up, YUM!

I had my line in the water for a third time after losing my first lure on something 40 feet below and getting snagged a second time requiring Kelli's dad to get my line free. Anyhow, I was trying to let out a little line because the current was pretty swift and my line kept on going out. I thought that was weird and I stopped letting line out and tried to reel it in a bit. Well it wouldn't come in and I thought I was snagged again so I asked Dale for help. By then my line was starting to cross the other guys' lines and when Dale took the pole he said my line felt funny because I had a fish on! So with lots of coaching I got the fish up to the net and yippee! I got myself a gigantic Chinook. That was fun and I look forward to doing it again.

p.s. Go to Schimelpfenig dot com to see the actual size of the fish. The photo above is a little camera trickery courtesy KDHS. He's a huge fish but not 4 feet long, duh!