This is a picture of my dad holding up a record-making 47.2 pound salmon he caught (it's the largest salmon ever caught out of Santa Cruz harbor here in CA)

Anyway, I just got it e-mailed it to me by my dad's fishing buddy and I think it's just a cool looking picture, so I'm posting it.

guess you are having salmon for breakfast / lunch and dinner

Nah, not really. We'll probably have it for a dinner a couple times, but my dad tends to like to give away a lot of it.

That sucker is huge. How the hell... Damn, that's skills right there.

You go fishing, you go where you think the fish are, and you happen to hook up with a huge one. There's some skill in catching fish, but there's nothing but dumb luck in catching big ones.

BTW, the fish is 42 inches long (3.5 feet, for those not divisionally-inclined) and more than 14 inches "tall", not including fins (tall = from the belly of the fish to the spine at its fattest point)

wow that must have been a lot of fun trying to catch.. i bet that thing put up a good fight.

You'd be surprised...it's frequently the smaller fish that put up the fight. I remember once when I went halibut fishing and I caught a 21 pounder (decent size). It just sort of wafted in...I wasn't actually sure anything was on my line until I saw it in the net. Then my friend caught another fish, same species, half the size, which fought him hard for a good 10 minutes or so.

That sucker is huge! The steelies we catch on Lake Michigan generally are somewhere in the 15-25 pound range. Good eats, for sure.

big bastard. be sure to make some smoked salmon out of it