"RichZ" wrote in message ...
Gone wrote:
This fish is not anyone of the one's you mentioned. It's a Chinook (ot).

I've not had the opportunity to catch a Chinook with spinning tackle. But the
backreeling procedure would be no different. I can pretty much guarantee you
that a bonito (false albacore) pulls faster.

I've caught hundreds of Chinook salmon and they don't pull any harder or faster than the Atlantics
that you've already caught, definitely not more than the bonito. I used to fish them with my
walleye spinning tackle, a 7' medium light spinning rod and a reel with less line capacity than the
Spirex 2000. Even spooled with 10 pound test mono, I landed Chinooks up to 32 pounds. I rarely
broke a fish off and was only spooled twice by fish that were considerably larger than the 32
pounder that I did land.
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Steve
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