In what can be considered a one in a million shot, Sara Nudelman of Livermore, CA (getting a helping hand here from hubby Dan) caught this beautiful 24-pound king salmon while fishing for stripers with me on Sunday on the lower San Joaquin River. The fish bit a 3/4-ounce silver Hopkins spoon in 14 feet of water and put up a damn nice fight!
It’s not that catching a king down there is unheard of, but the lower San Joaquin is big, big water and has very few kings even on a good year. This season, of course, we have no kings anywhere in the Valley rivers, so this fish was the proverbial needle in the haystack. Kinda funny too, when you consider I trolled the Sacramento for 8 hours the day before (looking for kings) without even a takedown.
I didn’t get a chance to talk with Big Fred today after his second day at the FLW Series event at Pickwick Lake in Alabama, but I checked the results and it looks like he found some rough sledding and blanked. I don’t have any more details than that…tomorrow is a new day.
Just a quickie Big Fred Contaoi update here….after Wednesday’s Day 1 of the FLW Eastern Series event at Pickwick Lake, AL, our man weighed in 2 bass for 5 pounds, 10 ounces and is currently running in 84th place.
He’s just 4 pounds out of the money at the moment, so we’ll have to see how Thursday goes. I’ll report back when I get off the water…
Those pesky, blood-thirsty possums with attitude are back to inflict mucho pain on the human race….
(This is second installment of my brother’s epic masterpiece of marsupial madness, Possum Death Spree. If you missed Episode 1, click on the Videos section of this website) WARNING: This is not for weak stomachs, small kids or members of PETA.
I saw this sign in the parking lot at the mouth of Willow Creek, Alaska — about an hour north of Anchorage…kinda says it all, doesn’t it?
It was posted by a company that will rent you a raft so you can get away from the crowds and the cluster f*%# at the mouth. I’m with them — if I want to fish shoulder-to-shoulder with 300 of my not-so-closest friends, I’m sure as hell not going to Alaska to do it. There are plenty of places at home for combat fishing…
This angler, we’ll call her “Pamela Anderson” (the angler’s true identity was asked to be concealed), hooked this bright red fire engine on Alaska’s Kenai River while fishing with guide CW this summer.
In CW’s words: Our day consisted of a few bites and this animal in the box. I don’t want to say anything bad about this fish considering it was big and bad and fought like a true Kenai King. This King daddyo hit a back trolled k-16 like a freight train.
Now, some folks will argue that many Kenai River kings come straight out of the salt with red flanks but you can tell this fish had been around for awhile.
Check out the kype, the extremely skinny belly and that nice notch in the tail. Sweet!
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