Salmon, Chinook DocEsox

Submitted by DocEsox on Fri, 01/05/2018 - 23:55
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Species:

  • Salmon, Chinook
Location: 
Caught at the mouth of Kashwitna River where it dumps into the Big Susitna River. Was fishing for rainbows using a 4" mossy sculpin fly on 5 wt flyrod with 12 lbs leader. My best flyrod catch....thought I had a great rainbow.....halfway through my backing I realized it had to be an early king. No one else around, fishing from shore.....took an hour and 15 min to land this puppy. 43" and 40 lbs.....
Date Caught: 
Tuesday, May 8, 2007

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SomewhereDownstream

Sat, 01/06/2018 - 08:39

That's awesome. It must've really been a pain on that five weight.

SomewhereDownstream

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DocEsox

Sat, 01/06/2018 - 10:57

You got that right.....was afraid it was going to break the whole time.  Amusing part of this story is that over the next two weeks I fished this same area with my 10 wt.....looking for the kings......I hooked several and lost every one of them....go figure.