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Wednesday - 4 pinks
Thursday - 2 pinks and this King
Friday was miserable - fell climbing the bank out of the river, ripped a hole in my waders and lost a fish off my stringer. So no pictures.
Saturday - took a buddy for his first 'wading in the river' adventure and caught these 7 pinks between us
Thursday - 2 pinks and this King
Friday was miserable - fell climbing the bank out of the river, ripped a hole in my waders and lost a fish off my stringer. So no pictures.
Saturday - took a buddy for his first 'wading in the river' adventure and caught these 7 pinks between us
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Hey three outa four good days is great!!! I can taste those Salmon right nowHolySteel wrote: ↑Tue Sep 05, 2023 6:04 pmWednesday - 4 pinks
Thursday - 2 pinks and this King
Friday was miserable - fell climbing the bank out of the river, ripped a hole in my waders and lost a fish off my stringer. So no pictures.
Saturday - took a buddy for his first 'wading in the river' adventure and caught these 7 pinks between us
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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.SaltyCaribbeanDfly wrote: ↑Tue Sep 05, 2023 7:01 pmHey three outa four good days is great!!! I can taste those Salmon right now
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.
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I’m sending you my addressHolySteel wrote: ↑Wed Sep 06, 2023 11:18 amI 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.SaltyCaribbeanDfly wrote: ↑Tue Sep 05, 2023 7:01 pmHey three outa four good days is great!!! I can taste those Salmon right now
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.
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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.
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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.
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Man that’s so cool, great hauls of salmon dude…learn as you go and have a lot of fun along the way
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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 thinkSaltyCaribbeanDfly wrote: ↑Fri Sep 08, 2023 4:15 amMan that’s so cool, great hauls of salmon dude…learn as you go and have a lot of fun along the way
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Caught a few “SNITS” (standard nine inch trout), maybe a little longer idk and decided to release them but hey it was a blast
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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.
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.
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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
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They are delicious - filleted and pan-cooked in butter with salt and pepper. My girlfriend prefers baking them whole.SaltyCaribbeanDfly wrote: ↑Sun Sep 24, 2023 6:51 pmSNITS make for good eating and fun times cause there’s so many…and as far as November I’ll be in a deer stand
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.
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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
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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.
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.
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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.
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.
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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.
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