Angler:Chad O.
August 1987
Credit River
I was fishing with a yarn fly under a float
There were a lot of fish and i had caught a few
The float went down and i set the hook, it barley moved, i leaned into it a bit and it started coming
It seemed like the water in the pool lifted, fish scattering everywhere
Then i saw it, a monster
I fought the fish for 15 mins at least before i got my hands on it, a giant hen
This fish dwarfed anything else i ever landed, i was so worried the line wouldn’t hold
After a photo i released her back
Thats when my knees started shaking, I didn’t know there was any salmon that big in the river, there was lots of good size fish but this one was something else
I have fished my whole life and never caught another salmon like this.
The Fish Gods were good to the angler that day