It turned out to be the all-time record for the largest Salmon off the Pier since the Pier officially opened in 1987. I was using a 2 oz green Gibbs Minnow Lure. I have caught quite a number of large salmon off the Pier over the years and the greatest percent of them were caught using the Gibbs Minnow. Lloyd Antonik caught a 224 pound halibut jigging with a Mudraker. I didn't really believe in spoons up until that point.
Access is only by airplane or snowmobile in the winter.
We have a small boat at the lake we use and on one particular trip, my son, a friend and myself were trolling along this bluff. I had just moved to Vancouver, B.C. and had the opportunity to do fishing with May and Dan of Affordable Charters. It was the 4th day and we had been fishing all day with no luck. We were after Coho and there was no retention on Chinook that year. The line took off and I quickly grabbed the rod and hung on for dear life.