The largest Gaula Salmon 2014 caught on fly - take, fight, landing and release by Manfred Raguse 

Hi Manfred, great video and great fight of both ! It is very nice to see you play this beauty of a powerful female Atlantic Salmon. A pleasure for everybody who enjoys this kind of elaborated way of catching and releasing such amazing fishes....well done !

And if you intend to release the fish, a long fight is the antithesis of a good game plan. A long fight causes oxygen depletion in the muscle tissue and the resulting lactic acid can kill the fish, or make it so weak and slow it can't survive after the release.

Nice catch Manfred! Very few fly fishermen catch such a wonderful salmon in their lifetime! Best regards from Flensburg!

That piece of water looks so good! Great catch. Wish I could go there!

You are a fine fisherman. Thank-you for posting this video.

A net on your back could have saved a few minutes. Stunning looking pool!

Very difficult to hold a fish that size by the wrist when you're on your own.

What a river! Very nice pool. The approach and casting is nice too.

Hi Manfred, great to see a wonderful fishing video without the garnishing of stupid music

Thats fantastic, so exciting to see the take!

Nicely done!

Wonderful footage!! Stunning!

Good man lovely fish

Thumbs up for you sir. And tak for release👍👍

Great footage! Thanks for sharing it!

Wow!!! What an awesome catch! To have it all on film like that is so beautiful....well handled and so awesome to see such incredible fish like that released...I wish our rivers in Nova Scotia, Canada had more genetics like that swimming upstream to spawn! Well done!!!!

Wunderbare Bilder vom Fang eines tollen Fisches. Schön, dass man die Entwicklung bis zum Anbiss verfolgen kann. Die Landung war ein echtes Nervenspiel, aber letztendlich erfolgreich. Gratulation und Petri Heil

Fine fine fish and some beautiful casting!👍

What a beautie! Great fight, too!

wow!!!! Well done sir!!

style and integrity all the way....congratulations to You SIR !!!!

Bravo !!!!!

What a salmon. WOOOW What was the succesful fly pattern? Single or double hook? Grusse aus Tschechien, Petr.

Wow! That is a serious salmon. Beautiful. How lucky are you guys?

Stunning fish always make sure to have a net with you next time lovely fish 👍🏼

As Good A Salmon Fisherman As I,ve Ever Seen,,,, Got That Salmon Buzz Just Watching It,,,, +Manfred Raguse Thank You For Sharing Your Skill,,,,, A Fish Of A Lifetime Time To Get The Rod Out......... AMAZING

Great video , how there salmon is big ! 🙂

Hey Manfred. I've fished NFFC water in the past but I don't recognise that pool. Which is it?

Well done that man. BUT what has happened to the time honoured tradition of using a Gye Net? I feel that this angler can count himself lucky, that this monster stayed attached after all the Faffing around to land it!!!

I think you will find Manfred that a net is easier than stressing the fish out !!!!

Hi Well I have to say the sad thing about this is the unnecessary, protracted play out of the fish, the ridiculous missed grabs at the fish, exhausted by its efforts to get free, it will be in an poor state. This fish carries the genetics so important for the survivability of the Atlantic Salmon, painful to watch at the end and rather ridiculous.

Wonderfull nature. 👏👏👏

What a well-deserved fish. No publicity-seeking, no fuss. Just a quick moment to admire the fish and a careful return to ensure its chance to spawn. You are an angler we would all do well to copy. It's forty years since I netted a 38pound fish from the river Teifi in Wales. That went straight into someone's freezer. Maybe they would still be there if they had been treated with the same respect as this guy shows. Hat's off to you sir

This is the closest i get to my youth catching sea trout and salmon Very nice clean fish

Absolute gorgeous stretch of river. Would it help to wear a landing glove .... I was really concerned you might lose that fish in the end. Anyway, congrats on the catch .... thank you for filming this wonderful battle.

You have to be pretty strong to work that rod all day long. Well done!

Well played.

Nice guy, great strech of Gaula. Just make sure, when you book, that you are not in the same period as his goodold Japanese friend. Raguse takes him to all the hotspots first and you may find your luck with that's what's left.

That's a BIG fish!

Nets are very useful.

I could watch him cast all day

For the cost to fish there i would expect a gillie to be on hand !

what was that noise at 6.30?? great vid btw

Massive fish!

Gaula river here in california? we have a river by that name

Not a great way to try and ‘land’ a good salmon. Very lucky not have lost it. But really enjoyed the river and the take.

That guy needs to use a net. Fish can die due to too much stress and energy loss fighting for such a long time. He was struggling fish showed him some serious power.

Grab it by the tail instead of netting it? Ridiculous

Graźi treniruotè ...,

Could you center the fisherman and zoom in a bit….😑

we have fish like that in 40 ft wide streams in NY state off of Lake Ontario & 15 lb brown trout, coho, king & 12 lb steelhead & larger -for free!

Way peplos wen catch fish they messing around to Mach Why'd the fisch??? Specifically Wen the fish need be back on the water¿?¿

fish of a life time and you don't have a net !!

Just for the Drill of it… sinnloser Stress für den Fisch. Nice fish

If fishing was easy it would be called catching

wow pretty

What is a Gaula Salmon??

How not to land a salmon!

Lot of experts on here

Try Alaska, no place even compares! Simple!🤣😉

I don’t get it ! Why would all these eejits watch a wonderful bit of video like this and then whine about how this very skilled fisherman went about it ? all this crap about nets(they may not be allowed on this stretch) and lactic acid !

that was awfull

James graham is a fool