<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "> <a href="http://www.fishsniffer.com/reports/details/august-22-2012-mike-elster-bags-new-state-record-inland-chinook/">http://www.fishsniffer.com/reports/details/august-22-2012-mike-elster-bags-new-state-record-inland-chinook/</a><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#636363" face="Times" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 22px;"><br></span></font></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(99, 99, 99); font-family: Times; font-size: 22px; ">MIKE ELSTER BAGS NEW STATE RECORD INLAND CHINOOK</span><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 21px; background-color: rgb(186, 225, 240); "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#6F6F6C" face="Arial" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;"><br></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 21px; background-color: rgb(186, 225, 240); "><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#6f6f6c" style="font: 14.0px Arial; color: #6f6f6c">Written By: <b>Dan Bacher, August 22, 2012</b></font></div> <br><img src="cid:DD5D46BA-1376-438E-ADD0-B907AB364D56@local"> <div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Verdana; min-height: 13px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Verdana; min-height: 13px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Verdana">Mike Elster of Mike's Fishing Guide Service set a new pending California landlocked king salmon record when he landed an 11.2-pound fish at Trinity Lake on August 13.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"><br></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Verdana">His huge fish eclipses the existing inland Chinook record of 9 pounds, 9 ounces set by Leroy Mohr of Trinity Center at Trinity Lake on November 26, 2011.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Verdana">Elster took the lunker to the Department of Fish and Game office in Redding to be weighed, measured and examined. The fish measured 27˝ inches long and had an 18˝-inch girth. </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"><br></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Verdana">"Jude, my wife and I hit Trinity Lake yesterday morning and weren’t in the water but 35 to 40 minutes and I got this monster hit,” recalled Elster in an email. “He made my downrigger bounce and I thought I might have drug the bottom, but when I checked my depth we were in 220 feet of water and I was only fishing at 80 feet.” </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"><br></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Verdana">"First, he crossed over my stacked rod and got tangled with the Apex I had out, fortunately it wasn’t bad and I was able to cut it off my line," Elster stated. "While we were messing with the tangle, the fish made a lap around my downrigger cable. I raised the downrigger and figured out how to thread my rod through the 'rigger and around the cable and was able to free it.” </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"><br></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Verdana">Elster continued, "The fight was on, and when I got him to the surface I was excited. Finally, I got him close enough and Jude did a great job getting him in the net, but I had to drop the rod and take over the net because she couldn’t lift it in the boat." </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"><br></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Verdana">Elster hooked the fish while using a “cop car” Apex lure. It took him around 20 minutes to land the fish on his Okuma 7 foot guide special rod, outfitted with an Abu Garcia 4600 level wind reel spooled with 10 lb. Maxima Ultra Green line. Elster is considering getting his trophy mounted. </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"><br></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Verdana">“We caught two small kokanee that day, in addition to the big king,” noted Elster. “The kokanee and king fishing is hit and miss at Trinity now, but I expect the fishing to pick up after Labor Day.”</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"><br></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Verdana">Elster guides on Trinity, Shasta and Whiskeytown lakes. For more information, contact him at (916) 215-6330 or Mikesfishingguideservice.com.</font></div></div></body></html>