58 lbs Chinook - Skeena River
93 lbs Halibut - Portland Canal, last summer...
My son (six at the time) brought up a 52 lbs Halibut from 300' all by himself on the same trip - took him about half an hour, the only thing I did is have my hand on the butt of the rod in case he couldn't hold it and my other hand through his back belt loop - just in case it decided to head back down and he forgot to let go!
Also on the same trip a bunch of Dolphins kept coming by and trying to get at our fish beside the boat - pretty cool how smart they are - working together to distract us ... Anyways one went down about 250' took my Dad's Herring and shot back up to the top and skimmed across the the top - it took about 200' feet of line in about 10 seconds with the drag so tight I could barely pull line out - I grabbed the rod the power was unbelieveable nothing you could do but watch the line run out - best part is with about 20 yards of line left I just reefed back on the rod the line snapped and only ended up losing maybe 50 yards!
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