White King salmon meat

[grundy53]

Arguing apples and oranges. "Tules" and "white kings" are two different strains of Chinook.

No Tules in AK, totally different, do  not blame you for not eating a Tule, but white meat Kings- especially winter Kings out of Homer and Ketchikan, yummy!  And this from one of the biggest Salmon snobs around.....ME!  I never ate anything but fresh Reds..  Gave all almost all Kings away...

Would you say my fish was a white king?  The head clearly depicts a clean hen.  I wonder why this hatchery fish contains genetics form AK?  I hope I can hook another.  I'll get pics before I fillet it to show how Crome.

The genetics are not necessarily from AK they are in the Fraser river too as well as others.

[Button Nubbs]

And not all salmon/steelhead go to the river they are born in. Some fish are nomadic for whatever reason, more than most people think.

[DIYARCHERYJUNKIE]

I went out today looking for another white king.  No fish on but I'll keep at it and photograph every fish whole before I fillet it so I can show how chrome these tules really are.     I mean kings.

[_TONY_]

Caught a bunch of white kings when fishing off Tofino B.C. for an SSJ artical a couple years ago (toad-fino)... I think they're not bad...

[buglebuster]

tasty tule 

[_TONY_]

They're not Tules like you'd find swimming up the lower Columbia tribs... Different fish.

[RB]

Good lord so all the White kings you catch and do not want send them my way by far the best smoking King you can catch they seem to be a bit more oily than regular pink meat Kings more like black cod good eats! 

[runamuk]

The Vedder/Chiliwack river system in Canada has a huge fall run of white kings.  The locals don't particularly care for 'em because the kings push the coho out of the holes.  I think the white kings are pretty tasty.  They're especially good if you cold smoke 'em for an hour then can 'em.  YUM!

that sounds perfect...yum

[Bullkllr]

They're not Tules like you'd find swimming up the lower Columbia tribs... Different fish.

Good lord so all the White kings you catch and do not want send them my way by far the best smoking King you can catch they seem to be a bit more oily than regular pink meat Kings more like black cod good eats! 

Arguing apples and oranges. "Tules" and "white kings" are two different strains of Chinook.

Correct.  "Tules" are normal kings that begin their spawning process in the ocean so by the time they make it to their spawning site they are ready to go.  Their spawning site is very close to the ocean, they dont have the time to prepare to spawn in the river like many other strains do.  Just a FYI, each creek has its own genetically diverse population of Kings and each one has it's own quirks.

 

I thought this was settled last year
They are two completely different types of chinook.

 It is known...

[sirmissalot]

White kings eat great, I've actually done a side by side comparison and couldn't notice a real difference in flavor. I'd rather catch a red one or a white one than a marble one, but I get a lot of marble chinook out of Neah every year, got one today even. They eat fine but aren't as pretty. I know the commercial guys don't get much for a white king, there is a run of big kings every year in Neah and most are white.

Comparing a white chinook to a Tule makes no sense whatsoever

I'll try to remember to take a picture if we get another marbled one tomorrow

[HntnFsh]

There are also a few white kings caught in the Columbia every year also. Seems like the White Salmon river was named for them. As stated before, there is a huge difference between a tule and a white king.

[Taco280AI]

I caught one off the Edmonds pier a few years back, a little milder than the regular pink, but good.

[Ironhead]

One more vote for the don't like white Kings category.
When we lived up in Juneau the white Kings were all ways crab bait. They were not as firm or oily as the red Kings. These fish were all fresh from the salt. Some people smoked them but most locals did not put white Kings in the table fare freezer.

[SkookumHntr]

 White king salmon meat = crab bait

[boneaddict]

My brother sells fish for a living all over the world, and he says they are way higher priced than the normal ones.   We barbecued several of them he obtained and they were tasty.

Its funny how many different opinions there are and how many different "facts".