42 inches of rumor

[sfp]

Check out the blog on this.

http://www.riversofalostcoast.com/index.php/roalc_blog/

Anybody heard anything?

[speyfool]

Interesting. Is the basin considered the area above the Hazel bridge? Or directly below? Or perhaps it is both?

I've only fished once in that area. So, I'm not familiar. When I was there, a lot of people were targeting spawning salmon, so I left and haven't returned (stay in the El Manto area now).

[sfp]

Yea I think so. I think it's that crazy place where the are hordes of anglers. That's why I was wondering if anyone saw anything?

[Mike R]

I'd like to believe it but without pics who knows. In this age of cameras, the absence of pics makes something like a 42"er hard to believe. That being said, here's to hopin'!!!!

Mike

[shawn kempkes]

where I live fish over 42 inches are pretty comon.Two weeks ago the tribal gillnetters caught a 31 pounder in their nets. A local taxadermist bought it from them and he is using it to make a mold. Sad that fish died.

my buddy caught and released a fish he said was 41.5 inches with a 23 inch girth last week. But a 42 incher on the american is possible but probably another bs story.

[shawn kempkes]

Carl

My address says Port Angeles Washington but it is closer to Forks than Pa. So to answer your question no I don't live in Santa Rosa any more. I don't miss it one bit. I have wanted to move here for a long time. I only have to walk about 150 ft to cast to steelhead in the Sol duc.

[shawn kempkes]

carl pm sent

[bigtj]

Sounds like 42 inches of baloney to me. If I had a dollar for every trout and steelhead that I've seen caught stretched out by 4 to 8 inches I'd be a millionaire.

As far as 42 inch steelhead being "pretty common", come on Shawn I know you fish the OP but seriously man those fish aren't "pretty common". Pretty common is 36-40". I have been fishing for steelhead for over 20 years and I have landed exactly one steelhead over 40 inches and that was on the Sol Duc in Washington, it was 20.75 by 20 1/4. I bet that in the entire US the number of fly-caught steelhead 42 inches or bigger is less than 10 fish a year. Considering the California all-time record is 42 inches I would hardly call that "pretty common" I would call it "not impossible but highly unlikely"

[mike N]

I snorkeled the river this after noon for about a 1.5 mile drift. I didn't see any steelhead over 41 inches.

MN