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22-pound Mad River Steelhead!

January 20, 2007 By JD 2 Comments

22-pound Mad River Steelhead

After an epic 35-minute battle that took him on a 500-yard hike down the Mad River, 17-year-old Roy Heape of Oroville, CA joined an elite club this week when he caught & released this 22-pound, 11-ounce wild buck steelie.

The big fish was going to be just a good fish tale for the kid because he didn’t have a camera with him at the time. Luckily, Jason Ford of Petaluma happened to be fishing nearby and snapped a couple photos of the youngster and his monster buck.

And by the way, the biggest steelhead of Heape’s career prior to this fish? How about 2 pounds!!

Maybe I’m a little jaded these days, but methinks Mr. Heape may want to retire now…it’s going to be tough to top that one!

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  1. Roy Heape says

    February 5, 2017 at 10:47 am

    It was actuall 23lbs an 10oz it was weighed an photoed by a western outdoor news editor an was on the cover of western outdoor news sorry that your jelious I understand tho have a good one !

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  2. nathan says

    March 6, 2011 at 9:13 am

    how do no it was 22 lb if it was wild and released ,u out of towners probably snagged it on a longline,ive caught and weighed plenty of mad river steelhead and the pic does not look like 22lbs

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