Thread: Giant Salmon

Originally Posted by A330driver

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We took 4 of these yesterday… 8-10k going over the Bonneville dam on the Columbia… all in fine condition

Using a simple setup… spinners,coon shrimp…. 1 metre down rigger with a 1.5 metre trailing double hook

A mixture of coho and chinooks… the coho are bloody difficult to land…. Once hooked the coho run upstream,fast… hard to keep tension on the line… the chinooks run downstream so much easier

… … the ol man finally caught one…struth!!!

It’s a small world out there… we have a kiwi flag on the boat….this bloke on another boat rolls up on us … another kiwi!!!! … from taranaki!!… awesome chinwaggle and laugh…

2 coho caught yesterday,…ocean fishing,mouth of the Nehalem river ,Oregon ,pacific coast

Of all the salmon types,I reckon the COHO are the best tasting of the lot.Dark red flesh,whether smoked,baked,sushemi…its all good.

The commercial boys took a big swipe at them this week..now they’ve buggered off and let us get a few…….cannot believe the number of sea lions in the bay,gorging themselves on the run…….once hooked,you need the get the fish in the boat quickly,the sea lions love nothing better than to take your catch whilst still on the hook

I worked with Salmon for 20 yrs down on the sea cages at Stewy Is. We kept some broodstock fish aside for a few years. Some of those got close to 30kgs and got to about 6yrs plus old. Those were King Salmon or chinook.