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

Good day all fellow anglers. I had quite a weekend up at Mill City. It started on Thursday I met Kodiak down below the bridge and he coached me on the art of catching nookies. Very slow evening for catching but not for watching them jump. As the evening came on so did the herring. WOW that was a sight to behold 8 guys standing on each side of the river one side casting to the middle one side casting 3/4 the way across the river. Combat fishing at its best. I will say phil had a great take down and quick hook and release and was rewarded with a bare hook. I would like to thank kodiak for his time and knowledge and bait Also introducing me to a very nice gentlmen named Ray who will return at the end of this story.
On friday I awoke at 5 am and headed for Mill City. Knowing with the hundreds and I mean hundreds of fish jumping I was going to catch one not a doubt in my mind.
So I got there rigged up and headed to the water. I found a piece of roe wrapped in some mesh put it on my hook. First cast set my pole down to grab a quick drink of java. BAM!!! fish hit dang missed that one. I proceeded to fish for another hour with nothing. At about 7 am i got hung up gave my rod a tug and snap broke my salmon rod. Headed back to camp and grabbed another rod got back to the river and no one was fishing where I was so I got rigged up dropped my line in and I was joking with a guy about breaking my rod I had just gotten. As this was going on I got slammed set the hook and snapped another rod. To the truck back to camp this time I brought 2 rods and didn't snap another one I might add.
Upon my returning to the I saw a guy with it looked as though he had a fish on , as I spoke to one of the teenagers he said the guy was snagged. I watched for a little bit and it sure looked as though he was snagged. So paying little attention I went about trying to catch some fish, a while later this guy was still doing the same thing just tugging on his rod with no real pressure he looked like he was jigging and not very well I might add. All of a sudden I here him yell its a monster,no one on my side of the river said a thing just giggled to each other. With thoughts of you have got to be joking. I asked a guy that was fishing what time it was and he said 10:20 I replied no way he said yep. As i pondered this it came to reality that guy has been fighting that fish for 3 hrs. You have got to be joking came to mind,as I was thinking this, the guy yells 5 dollars if you bring me a net and sure enough a kid grabbed a net and off he went. About 5 minutes later I saw a tail fin and was suprised it was a nook WOW!!!! the youg man sat there for roughly a 1/2 hour and then his father went over with it in his mind he could encourage this guy to tighten his drag and pull up hard on his rod. To no avail this guy was having none of it. as time passed it got to 11:45 am and I needed to get back to camp. Off i went to camp came back about a 1/2 hr later and he had lost the fish.
SO THE ANSWER TO MY OWN QUESTION WOULD BE.
1 15LB (ESTIMATED) SPRING CHINOOK 4HRS.45 MIN.
Now to draw my story to a conclussion on fathers day morning 5 am I took one of my daughters fishing and it was slow we fished for a 1/2 hr to no avail and a gentlmen named Ray who I had met on thursday night hooked up (what a beautiful sight) and handed his pole to Brooklyn eyes bulging she dug in like a pro reeling down pulling up as she put it what a awesome feeling dad. Sure is daughter and she pulled up this 8-10 pound nook. I send out many thanks to Kodiak for the invite to his territory and introducing me to a good person such as Ray. To Ray many thanks my daughter will never forget her time on the n. santiam.