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Gary light 4/2/22 Apr 03, 2022 8:56 am #33793

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Nice job. Those are some good looking fish. Nothing more fun than a surprise king in the spring.

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Gary light 4/2/22 Apr 03, 2022 10:42 pm #33806

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That’s a great catch of coho salmon. Plus you got a big king! Congrats and thanks for the report.
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Gary light 4/2/22 Apr 04, 2022 8:18 am #33811

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Nice work Steve.  What kind of line were you using?  I remember a few years I put on all new line.  I tinkered with PLine Fluoroclear.  Got snapped off by 8 kings in the Classic.  Went back to Blood Run Mono and Fluoro and have not had a line failure since.
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Gary light 4/2/22 Apr 04, 2022 5:58 pm #33819

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Jeff it was 12lb trilene xt and actually my walleye rods. I’m leaning more towards user error as my crew kept trying to muscle the bigger fish into the boat. You are not going to flip a 20+ inch coho into the boat. They have fished all their lives but trolling isn’t their forte.
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Gary light 4/2/22 Apr 04, 2022 6:08 pm #33821

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That's what you get for fishing with bass guys 

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Gary light 4/2/22 Apr 04, 2022 6:51 pm #33822

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I used to be one of those Bass Guys haha.  I remember early on trying to horse an upper teens king into the boat in under 30 seconds.  It did not turn out well 

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Boatless!

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Gary light 4/2/22 Apr 04, 2022 10:42 pm #33833

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Same here, and me too! Cranking that drag down to near the breaking strength of the line, wondering how I lost so many fish, haha. You get used to skipping bass across the top of the water, a salmon says hell no.
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Gary light 4/2/22