Thread: What's the longest fish fight you have seen?

Maybe a half hour or so. I was on the Siuslaw couple years ago by myself and hooked one of those 40 something Chinooks. I just let it drag my boat around until it got tired enough. It was long enough that the State Police who were downstream in, their boat, checking licenses, came up to see if I needed help netting him. Thought that was nice of them.

Well to all that read all of my post. I took both rods back to bi-mart and both were replaced no questions asked. I am a firm believer in bi-mart they replace anything I buy there.

I have a friend that hooked an estimated 12ft. sturgeon on a trout rod at the mouth of the Williamson river while stillfishing cub minnows for trout. They fought it for about 2-1/2 hrs out of a 10ft jon boat....pretty crazy!!! They had a crowd of boats watching before it was over, some of the boats got some nice pics of the sturgeon jumping out of the water during the fight! Insane to fight a fish that is longer than your boat!

Good story, made the local paper in K-falls with some nice pics.

hospital hole -3 yrs. ago - 43 lb. - in 8' of water - 1 hr. -

I have seen some long ones. Probably the longest one I have personally had was when I was fishing main stem of santiam middle summer for steelhead. Water was low, so I was using only 6-8 lb leader for steelhead. Well I hooked into about a 20 lb late season spring chinook. Took me about 45 mins to finally get it in, sure was fun. Wasn't expecting a springer.

Longest fishing fight I will see... Skunky day, Osmosis vs. ArcticAmoeba.

Chinaman's Hole on the Umatilla river about two miles from the mouth where it meets the Columbia; Ugly Stick rod (8 1/2 feet medium weight), Maxima Chamelion 10 lb test line, Mitchell 300x spinning reel, using corkies just above the hook with two foot 10 pound leader below the swivel and a slip weight jigging for Coho below a small waterfall. Net result 30+ minute fight; 41 inch Chinook buck (had to be released due to it being fall run and only Coho or jack Chinook allowed to be kept on the Umatilla).

Had to cut about 40 feet of line and throw it away as it was way stretched; almost stripped the gears in the reel (still works for trout and bass like it was intended in the first place).

Seven or so witnesses to the event; some of whom saw me the next year at that hole and asked if I had had anymore run ins with monsters.

That Chinook buck was the brightest chrome I had ever seen on this river.


I sent a short write up to Pure Fishing the parent company of Mitchell and Berkley, and they sent me a box of goodies (hat, spool of 10 pount Trilene, plastic grubs, couple lures etc.... ).


All in all a great time.


Dave