Hey three outa four good days is great!!! I can taste those Salmon right now
I still brought home two on Friday. We have been eating it every day - never gets old. Had some of the smoked King last night and will have a pan-cooked fillet for lunch.
Back out in the morning after a four-day rest. Steelhead should be coming in soon.
Here's most of the King ready to go in the smoker, with a piece of pink at lower-left for reference.
Bottom pic is most of two pinks, smoked and vac-sealed.
Hey three outa four good days is great!!! I can taste those Salmon right now
I still brought home two on Friday. We have been eating it every day - never gets old. Had some of the smoked King last night and will have a pan-cooked fillet for lunch.
Back out in the morning after a four-day rest. Steelhead should be coming in soon.
Here's most of the King ready to go in the smoker, with a piece of pink at lower-left for reference.
Bottom pic is most of two pinks, smoked and vac-sealed.
Because of this incredible Pink salmon run, the fishermen are getting really picky - guy next to me this morning says he's only keeping Silvers and Kings. I look at it this way: the pink only run here every other year, and it's for a relatively short period. So catch 'em, smoke or freeze 'em, and be happy about it. Baked, to me they taste like a rainbow trout - nothing wrong with that. They just don't have the fat and salmon flavor that we are used to.
Today I caught four at 11 lb, 4 oz total, about 4.5 pounds after smoking.
That is awesome!! I wish there was salmon fishing that good near me.
This situation is a little unusual, but a good way for a beginner to learn and get confident. My understanding is that when the Steelhead come in in a couple of weeks, the reel fun begins. I've been curing eggs to prepare. But it's steel drift fishing large schools, so a little more difficult but fish will be caught.
If you get an urge to try it next year, PM me - I'll be more than happy to take people out. I have not been able to figure out when the runs start - people just tell you it's happening and you go hit the river.
Man that’s so cool, great hauls of salmon dude…learn as you go and have a lot of fun along the way
Yes, it was a great experience, but the Pink Salmon run has finally ended - I caught two Saturday morning, then fished for another 6 hours that day, off-and-on, and didn't get a single strike. So now we're waiting for the Cohos..I think
SNITS! LOL First time I’ve heard that but it’s funny!
Actually reminds me that Massachusetts just recently began stocking trout for the season. I’m still fishing for bass though! I probably won’t start fishing for trout until around November.
SNITS! LOL First time I’ve heard that but it’s funny!
Actually reminds me that Massachusetts just recently began stocking trout for the season. I’m still fishing for bass though! I probably won’t start fishing for trout until around November.
SNITS make for good eating and fun times cause there’s so many…and as far as November I’ll be in a deer stand
SNITS! LOL First time I’ve heard that but it’s funny!
Actually reminds me that Massachusetts just recently began stocking trout for the season. I’m still fishing for bass though! I probably won’t start fishing for trout until around November.
SNITS make for good eating and fun times cause there’s so many…and as far as November I’ll be in a deer stand
They are delicious - filleted and pan-cooked in butter with salt and pepper. My girlfriend prefers baking them whole.
Fishermen up here consider bass to be inedible, but great sport. Strange to me, as that's what I fished for to eat, when growing up fishing in SE Texas and Louisiana.
Yes sir-fried,grilled,sautéed,baked…you name it…bass are delicious too, I usually throw the females back but not too proud to keep a mess of male bank runners…my favorite freshwater fish is a toss up between crappie,bream,catfish,white bass and perch although walleye is hard to beat, we just don’t have many like up north
That’s funny because I went out in the Kayak last week and caught a handful of those species. It was a big multispecies day.
Didn’t catch a catfish or walleye though. If there were walleye in that lake, I probably would’ve caught one. It felt like everything was eating that day.
The Coho run has started. We went yesterday and my buddy caught a 12 pound Coho twitching in the dark, which is unheard of. We caught nothing else, so drove 80 miles to a different river and my other friend caught this 25 pound King (that's me netting it). I was shaking while netting it - just a monster of a fish. We let him go, as he was worn-out from the spawning thing and would have been a not-so-great dining experience.
A funny positive - three of us are on the same pool team and had to play that evening after getting up at 2:30 a.m. and fishing until 3:30 that afternoon. We all three won our matches and two of us had an 8 on the break. Just proving that fishing generates good karma.
Did a little fishing today. It's the time of year where fishing my "local" trout stream is practical. It's really only good in the cool seasons after a good freeze. In summer it's extremely overgrown with vegetation that makes it entirely unpleasant to fish, not to mention the bugs are atrocious. Today the wind was ripping, there was a dreary rain/drizzle falling, and temps were around 45F. Stream was a bit high and stained from 2 days of rain. I managed a brown and a few rainbows, only fished for about an hour and decided it was best to return on a better day. Fish were not super active but I did move a decent number of fish given the conditions. They were not committing to biting a fly all that well so hooking up was a bit tough.
Because desolate places allow us to breathe. And most people don't even know they're out of breath.
I probably won’t start fishing for trout until around November.
