Big Spring (King) Salmon released near Port Hardy

Big Spring (King) Salmon released near Port Hardy. We caught this trolling the north side of Deer Island. My fishing partner - Robert Atlas of Phoenix Carpet Repair had been running a Silver Horde Kingfisher spoon in 3.5 Herring Aide finish behind the Coyote 11" mountain dew flasher when we decided to pull the gear up. After he pulled his gear off the downrigger release and started to reel in, this fish hammered the spoon and went on some epic line peeling runs. We already had our limits of Chinook so we released him back to the deep