What A Tank..

[hunter1947]

http://www.huntingbc.ca/photos/data/500/GetInline.jpg

[steel_ram]

There was a fare amount of discussion on another forum. Apparently it's real. The chinook was released.

[Rhyno]

Skeena River or alaska?

[dragonslayer]

wow what a monster, awesome.

[835]

i dont think i could hit that fish on the head......
looks pretty real to me,,, the water looks right...

[Fella]

Certainly the fish of a lifetime! Is definitely let that sucker go to spread his/her genes!

[Rackem]

Any story to go with this photo??

[adriaticum]

Fish of a lifetime.
Probably Alaska

[Fella]

Any story to go with this photo??

I bet she dove in and caught it with her bare hands.

[Phreddy]

When I lived in Campbell River we used to use them as bait

[t-rexer]

***ushima salmon. The real big ones glow

[steel_ram]

A quote from speypages website from the person who took the pic. Not everyone's an attention junkie.

"It was a bit of a splashy event all things taken together. We did have a boat. No official measurements were taken, we have estimates that put the weight in the range that folks with experience have suggested but no claims regarding the weight were made. The rod was a 15' 10/11 wt, and from the arbor knot all the way to the tippet, the setup was waiting for a fish like this. She was using the green fly: http://cl.ly/image/0k0r2s1Q1515 . The photo was shared with a couple friends and family. I guess in the digital age, that's all it takes. Pretty hard to keep a fish like that under wraps."

[luckofthedraw]

A fish that large deserves to live to see another day. What a monster.