One BIG SLAB!

Here's our man, Tommy T, releasing an ABSOLUTE SLAB of a chinook salmon!!  This big fish was hooked during the summer of 2010 off of Langara Island on the northern tip of Haida Gwaii, located on BC's north coast.  It fell to a flashy little cutplug herring fished tight to the kelp in Boulder Bay. 

After about two hours the fish had pulled the boys over two miles off shore from where it was hooked. The fish was finally scooped into the net, much to the relief of Tommy and his guest Sean, a first time salmon angler from Florida.

This photo along with a few others were snapped.  The fish was measured and calculated out to 68 pounds!  This big boy was put on his way, carefully released by Tommy and cruised off healthy to see another day.

Photo courtesy Langara Island Lodge, the spot we are guide at during the summer months.

Here are a few more photos, courtesy of guide and friend Kyle Milburn.