New personal best for pink salmon from the kayak...

I posted this in the WA forum, but thought I might as well post it here in this forum since I doubt I'll be catching a bigger pink salmon for at least two years. 

I caught it on a pink and white Dick Nite spoon in the Snohomish river by letting the spoon flutter down a dropoff into the main river channel in a bend in the river. It was 26" long and weighed 7lb 14oz, beating my previous personal best by almost three pounds. I first thought I must have hooked some other species of salmon due to how much differently this one fought versus the 5lb and under pinks that I've caught over the past few weeks.

Learning to fish for pink salmon out of the kayak is getting me warmed up for coho salmon to come in soon. If that's how an ~8lb salmon drags a kayak around, I can't wait to get a 12lb coho hooked up for a sleigh ride. 

Beautiful fish!