Nice fish! She should smoke well.
I had a similar story yesterday but without the happy ending. First cast with the #6 blue fox, BAM, fish on. Fought him for 15 minutes, and got him all the way to the bank. A bright Chinook about 36 inches. Went in for the tail grab, got my fingers around him, almost had him, and he thrashed away and started peeling line. 5 more minutes of fighting, and he managed to get downstream and onto a shallow gravel bar in only a few inches of water. Uh oh...a few hard flops and he snapped my #25 leader and swam away. That fish is going to haunt me for a while. I actually had trouble sleeping last night as I thought about losing him.
Anyhow, nice work on the late nook. Steel are starting to show up too!