Monster 43lb King Salmon! Epic Battle! Salmon Fishing - Juneau, Alaska! JUNE 2020

or trolling a low tide this morning one of the terminal king salmon fisheries near Juna season just opened a couple days ago so hopefully some schools are moving in seeing some herring balls on the on the sonar so that's a good sign we are on and this is a nice one again she was running hard I was texting my wife when that one hit all the way out there on top of the water oh my gosh fight this Heron line turn this boat Wow what a run okay there was a sea lion out here before I hope he's I hope he's gone boy he's still running you actually ran so hard he gave me line burn bleeding because it was tearing so hard that's okay small price to pay this wind's blowing hard back into this Cove so it's gonna actually push me towards this fish [Music] here comes he still might have a lot of fight left in him so this could be adventurous trying to net him yep ready for that I always on the boat good there he goes make sure he doesn't get in that engine [Music] [Music] [Music] this is a giant king look at this monster wow what a fish what a fish we get the boat sorted that is an absolute giant I can't wait to get a weight on him this fish was just hooked right in the tip of a web look at this cake a gorgeous fish okay forty to forty two and a half pounds just a giant hey guys before I get this fish cleaned up and head out of here I just want to hit pause and sort of reflect on just how awesome Alaska is I mean I had so many different experiences over the years but this just really goes to show this started out as a really slow morning you know a couple hours with no bites trollin could have just left and called it a day but just stuck with it and Alaska just truly delivered I you know I've caught a number of fish in the number of kings in the thirty pound range but this is my first that goes over 40 a forty three pounder just a just an amazing fish and it's so so Alaska it you know you just never know what what it'll serve up so you always have to just be always open and willing to just explore and see what kind of adventure Alaska throw at you

Channel: Captain Zac

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Keywords: king salmon, alaska salmon, alaska fishing, salmon trolling, juneau alaska fishing, juneau salmon, juneau salmon fishing, lamiglas, hewescraft, chinook salmon, alaska king salmon, alaska chinook salmon, trophy salmon, huge salmon, huge king salmon, monster salmon, trolling herring for salmon, protroll salmon, salmon fishing, big salmon, giant salmon, lena cove, juneau fishing

Id: 9ja9mHk_4t4

Length: 10min 25sec (625 seconds)

Published: Mon Jun 22 2020