Quest Outdoors

Ironhead · Posted: Sat May 10, 2008 7:27 am Post subject:

The rod is a 13 foot custom built St Croix, 3 piece, rated 4-10 lbs.

The reel is the brown Milner "kingfisher", bushing model.

Line is 20 lb glowing green trilene Laughing

, with 12 pound Seaguar floro leader(the only brand leader I will use).

The fish on the end is a 20 pound Harrison River "blackhead" Chum salmon. These are the hardest fighting salmon you will ever do battle with.
They are a very late run which most anglers have never experienced and we get a few lucky groups of anglers every year who join us in early mid November for the "war of the blackheads". You finish the day off with a few 5-8 foot Sturgeon Laughing

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I am grimacing for real in that photo, I am hurting.

Heres a few pics of the " blackheads" , many are bars of chrome while others display some colors but have tons of fight.

We catch all our Chum on float and jigs.

I keep the clicker on when I fight fish, beacuse I can, and have done it for decades and never had one burn out, just need a well made reel is all.
Love the ziiiiiiiiiiiiinnnnnnnnnnnnggg, only with a pin.

S Mick · Eyed Egg Joined: 31 Oct 2006 Posts: 7

Awesome......... Bad azz colors on the fish.

Flyfishmich · Posted: Mon May 19, 2008 10:58 pm Post subject: NE salt

Stripers like c-pins...

axisgear · Posted: Mon May 19, 2008 11:56 pm Post subject:

Dorado will take a greenback on a c-pin. Wink

As a pike takes a shiner on the same pin.....Slow and easy until you set the hook! Good fun,all of it!

FishKilla419 · Alevin Joined: 17 May 2006 Posts: 11

I smashed some walleyes in the river last winter w/ my pin. It was fun.

michipin · Egg Joined: 21 Apr 2006 Posts: 3

Small world. I fished the Harrison in late September last year. I recognize my guide, Oliver, holding the fish in the boat. He's a great fisherman. Knows his way around the pin. He laughed like hell when I had one of those 20+ pound chums give me a knucklebuster with my offset Spahr. He thought my 13'4" IMX was wimpy even though by Great Lakes standards its considered a meatstick. He tried to teach me the BC cast and couldn't understand why everyone from the Eastcoast uses a sidecast. Both of you guys drooled over my solar mint Ironsilk. Nice to see you finally found some out your way.
If any of you guys ever get to BC look these guys up. Oliver is a great guide. I fished both of the spots in the pictures along wiht a few others. I think my final count for an 8 hour trip was 5 kings (spingers), 5 big chums and 5 pinks not to mention a cutthrout trout and way too many pike minnows. One of the humpies pushed 10 pounds. Don't fib about only taking chums on jigs/shrimp. I think we got all of ours that day on skein under floats. What a great day. We never got to try for those massive sturgeon because I didnt want to leave to slams. The scenery out there was amazing. We saw dozens of mature Bald Eagles eating salmon carcasses on shore. Unreal.
If I can figure out how to post pics here, I'll put some of mine up. Peace!