Show Us Your Humpies !!!
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I think the mussel connection is a bit tenuous. There is a very similar species of freshwater pearlshell mussel that inhabits our PNW salmon rivers, and co-evolved with Pacific salmon. Margaritifera spp. have very robust shells and I'd like to see some evidence that pink salmon are having a direct negative effect on them before I'll be convinced. If their populations are decreasing, and I definitely believe they are because that is happening in many places across the globe, then I suspect other factors were already there before the pink salmon boom.
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Coho
Steelhead
Did the Golden sample it?
SF
Yep! He loves salmon
Scot’s whae hae!!!
That's a gorgeous fish! All the pretty cohos gettin a little jealous of that one.
Jiminy Creepers it ended being a lot of fish but I’ve got a good start.View attachment 166573
I’m going to turn all this frozen humpy into smoked salmon tomorrow. “Utility Salmon”
I decided to do some collars, even though they’re “just pinks,” just because.
Lots of HH (humpy hate) so it’s hard to understand that you’d go to all this trouble.
(for a pink). A few more weeks and all the HH can shift to CH. (I bet that collar was very tasty)
CH or CE (envy) in the case of @jasmillo ’s recent results.Lots of HH (humpy hate) so it’s hard to understand that you’d go to all this trouble.
(I bet that collar was very tasty)
I hear ya about Cohohoho envy - @jasmillo getting two 10+ pounders? (my CH was chum dislike.)
Oh yeah I forgot about that one. I like to go CnR some chums once in a while but when I’ve tried eating them, from ones my friend caught and smoked, I thought they were gross. Chums are cool. When they are in the rivers in any numbers they can really get the aquatic ecosystem ramping up. Plus they got those gnarly faces!
Went up to the Vedder River in BC this past Wednesday to scout it out. Saw lots of pinks in the river, but it seemed to me that even though the peak of the run ought to be about now, the number of fish indicated that the peak of the run has yet to arrive. The water is very low and clear (kind of warm at 63 degrees F); maybe the majority of the pinks are still out in the saltwater or in the Fraser. In this photo below you can see about 40 pinks in the shallow water (long, dark shapes):
Even though I was targeting the pinks, the first fish of the day was this small, silvery Coho:
Although there were lots of pinks in the river, they were not very cooperative. I only landed two and had another two on (all the fish were released). The ones I did hook seemed to be slightly larger than usual and very good fighters. This one in the photo below took off downstream and was well into my backing; I thought I had foul-hooked it, but it turned out to be fair-hooked, just a great fighter:
In spite of the scarcity of hook-ups, it was a really nice day on the river with clear, sunny skies, little wind and warm temperatures.
Rex
Even though I was targeting the pinks, the first fish of the day was this small, silvery Coho:
Although there were lots of pinks in the river, they were not very cooperative. I only landed two and had another two on (all the fish were released). The ones I did hook seemed to be slightly larger than usual and very good fighters. This one in the photo below took off downstream and was well into my backing; I thought I had foul-hooked it, but it turned out to be fair-hooked, just a great fighter:
In spite of the scarcity of hook-ups, it was a really nice day on the river with clear, sunny skies, little wind and warm temperatures.
Rex
