Cool Stuff: Fossil "Warthog" salmon.

[SilverFly]

Thinking you'd need a 14wt to fish PNW rivers a few million years ago:

Giant prehistoric salmon had tusk-like teeth, just like a warthog's

The largest salmon species ever discovered, Oncorhynchus rastrosus may have used its distinctive, tusk-like teeth to compete with rivals, defend against predators and dig nests.

www.livescience.com

 

[Greg Armstrong]

Thinking you'd need a 14wt to fish PNW rivers a few million years ago:

Giant prehistoric salmon had tusk-like teeth, just like a warthog's

The largest salmon species ever discovered, Oncorhynchus rastrosus may have used its distinctive, tusk-like teeth to compete with rivals, defend against predators and dig nests.

www.livescience.com

Thanks for posting this. Interesting stuff!

 

[Chucker]

Thinking you'd need a 14wt to fish PNW rivers a few million years ago:

Giant prehistoric salmon had tusk-like teeth, just like a warthog's

The largest salmon species ever discovered, Oncorhynchus rastrosus may have used its distinctive, tusk-like teeth to compete with rivals, defend against predators and dig nests.

www.livescience.com

It was a filter feeder, so maybe you’d need a 14 weight with a very very tiny fly! And some armored waders…

 

[Josh]

Very interesting! That dude looks badass. Here's another article with some drawings that I find pretty neat:

Meet The Extremely Metal Spike-Toothed Salmon | Defector

In 1964, paleontologists unearthed the skull of a giant ancestor of the sockeye salmon at a quarry near the town of Gateway, Oregon. Some estimate the salmon grew as long as nine feet, making it the largest known salmonid—a family of more than 200 species of fish that include all species of...

defector.com

Now let's set up some giant prehistoric salmon hatcheries and get to ropin' warthogs.

 

[Wadin' Boot]

Old Man Jim used to talk about the Warthog Salmon up near Bremerton back when he was young pup, before the land bridge that is.

 

[Matt B]

Old Man Jim used to talk about the Warthog Salmon up near Bremerton back when he was young pup, before the land bridge that is.

That's true, before the golf course and the land bridge, he was exploring Chico Creek for Warthog Salmon.

 

[Billy]

imagine if it took topwater