The biggest fish I ever caught was back at Chulinguk with a rod and reel. I went with Patrick and Alo to fish for King salmon. At first we were mostly catching pike in the places where we stopped to fish. We had a lot of fun catching the big pike because they were really tough to reel in to the beach. In one place where we fished we were hooking pike about every cast.

Then after a while I caught the biggest fish I ever caught in my life. It was very long and very fat for a pike. It took me a long time to pull it in because it was very strong. My arms even got weak from all the pulling the fish was doing. Finally I had to let Pat help me bring in the fish because it was so hard to pull it in by myself. When he dragged it up on the beach I was amazed at how huge the fish was that I caught. Alo and Pat were catching big pike too. Some of their pike were even bigger than mine. We were all catching big pike all day long and releasing most of them so we could catch them again the next time we went there. We sure had a lot of fun fishing back there, and I'll never forget the biggest fish I ever caught in my life. It was a real fighter!

By Jonathan Boots