Mooooooore Skeena river chinook this week!

Not BIG but it is a main stem "Skeena river" fly! caught king! That is all what matters!
Hans with his second skeena river chinook that day!
A super fresh chrome chinook for Hans! As you can see he is happy with it. And a Happy Hans is a happy Derek.
Wim with his personal best that week!
Fishing is still super for chinook! We hooked a good number of fish and lost a fish over 60 pounds for sure! But that is fly fishing for chinook. You will only land a small percentage of the fish you hook. They are in a lot of times just to strong. But sooner or later we will land a true monster a fish over 60 or 70 pounds on the fly! Yes FLY!

But for now have a look on the fish we landed last week.

WE NEED YOUR HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We and the Skeena river need your help! please read this email and do your part to preserve the future and excellent fishing!

Derek, imagine a massive oil spill less than a kilometre from your home or your child’s preschool. Your whole neighbourhood suffering terrible health effects. Being unable to move away, knowing the contamination is poisoning you. It happened to Susan and Michelle when oil giant Enbridge spilled over three million litres of Tar Sands oil into Michigan’s Kalamazoo River one year ago today. Enbridge hasn't cleaned up this mess, but they're already pushing plans that will threaten communities and salmon-bearing rivers from Alberta to British Columbia’s pristine coast. Stop their proposed pipeline now -- before we’re all on clean-up duty. We need only look to the Kalamazoo to understand what Enbridge's plan would cost us: Still closed a year later, the Kalamazoo harbors piles of oil that have even contaminated a lake over 40 km away.1 A report released this month showed that heavy metals (high levels are present in Tar Sands oil) are in the water supply at dangerous levels.2 Enbridge promised Michelle that they would pay for people to relocate from her neighbourhood (just 200 feet from the spill), but she hasn’t seen a dime. Of her 70 neighbours directly affected by the spill, the company has only helped three. Michelle has this message for you: "I don't want to see this happen to another community. You need to continue to fight, not just for yourself but for future generations." Can you help us stop Enbridge now? Thank you, Nikki Skuce, ForestEthics, Smithers, BC 1 http://blog.nwf.org/wildlifepromise/2011/07/realities-of-a-tar-sands-oil-spill-one-year-later-heavy-metal-pollution-submerged-toxic-tar-sands-oil-habitat-destruction-and-ongoing-oiled-wildlife/ 2 http://www.americanindependent.com/194531/after-kalamazoo-river-oil-spill-heavy-metal-levels-rise

NO MORE CHANCES: STOP ENBRIDGE'S PROPOSED TAR SANDS PIPELINE ACROSS CANADA Our communities and wildlife can't afford to suffer another Enbridge oil spill. On the anniversary of the three million litre Michigan spill, the company still hasn't cleaned up the mess. Let’s stop Enbridge from making the same mistake in Canada. Stop Enbridge Now >>

50 pound Skeena power!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Carl is the happy man who landed this 50 pounder on the skeena!!!!!!!!!!!!! We are now fishing up our season for the chinooks! And we ended with a bang. In search of a real monster what better to find them in the Skeena river the home of many world records. After loosing a couple fish, what is part of the game in fly fishing for chinook, we hooked into this monster. When Carl set the hook the water exploded like a volkswagen thrown into the water and all hell broke loose. After a battle we managed to land this fish, but it did not fitted into the landing net!

This season has been very good to us with the chinooks, but we have to give the credits to our clients that did all a outstanding job fishing for these fish. A lot of folks tell us that fly fishing for chinook can't be done! Are they wrong. They told us, no way you will get them in the main stem Skeena! do we need to say more...........

Now we will have some fun with the chums! In my and Derek's opinion the most underestimated game fish on the fly. They pull like crazy and fight like hell! So all the ingredients for a perfect time!
Same fish other side this fish was almost to difficult to lift. And you know i have lifted a lot of big fish. But man what a fish!
Hans with a nice chum.

more pics from last week.

Willem with his chinook.
Wim with a nice chubby fish.
Ger with a perfectly formed fish!

More BIG boy's

Matthijs personal best! A whopper of a king!
This one almost spooled him! But after a battle he will never forget we managed to land this chromer!
One of manny!

more pics.

Henny with his new personal best! Just topping the 40 pound mark!
Top rod Matthijs with one of manny he caught this week.
Herman with a chromer! A well deserved fish for all his effort.

more pics.

Ger with his king.
Matthijs, with one of manny he caught this week.
And Henny with his fish of a life time.

Fly fishing for Kings is Epic!

Henny with a nice king.
Herman and Henny with the first double hook up of the week.
Double hook up with king's! It does not get any better then this!
It has been quite on this blog for a week! For a good reason! Fishing for Kings was epic! In our best day we hooked 17 and landed 9! That is a number that is hard to beat. We landed 2 fish over 40 pounds! Ruud was ready with me to take the picture of the giant, and we could not hold it and it got away! What a bummer but he landed that big male estimated 44 pounds!

We even managed to get a double hook up with kings twice!!!! It does not get any better than this! The lucky anglers this week where, Ruud, Johan, Herman, Matthijs and Henny.

I will not post all the king pictures, only the nice ones or very big ones. I will post again 3 pics per day! Enjoy!

more pics.

The first chum of the year.
Kim with a very biggy.
Taking measurements for the weight calculations!

mpre pics.

Mik with his chromer!
Ume with his second 40 pounder!
The next big fish of the day!

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A very nice 40 pound fish for Ume! It does not get any better than this!
The second 30 plus pounder for Ume that day.

Finally we have some pics!

the smallest one of the week.
i very nice 30 plus pounder, just from the salt.
Kim, with a heavy female!

update

Uwe from Denmark with a beauty of a chromer!
Dale with his 30 plus pounder!
Sea lice! They do not come any fresher then this!

Fishing has been good, but the landing percentage has been low. But fishing for kings that is what you can expect because they are brutes.

We landed again 2 more fish over 40 pound so they pics will be on this blog soon! But first a couple other pics first.