Pinks are in..

[Smossy]

As long as the operator is below 0.08 BAC, you're good.  You can have a beer underway.

So passengers can drink?

[snowpack]

As long as the operator is below 0.08 BAC, you're good.  You can have a beer underway.

So passengers can drink?

Yes.   

[Button Nubbs]

As long as the operator is below 0.08 BAC, you're good.  You can have a beer underway.

So passengers can drink?

feel free to get *censored*akied! best part about humpy fishing!

[Smossy]

As long as the operator is below 0.08 BAC, you're good.  You can have a beer underway.

So passengers can drink?

Yes.   

Well count me in then!

[WaltAlpine]

SMoss,
That is some offer. I'd stop asking questions and accept a gracious, generous gift. Beer or not, people pay money for trips like that.

[Pathfinder101]

As long as the operator is below 0.08 BAC, you're good.  You can have a beer underway.

So passengers can drink?

I think SMossy's world just opened up to a whole host of possibilities today....

[lokidog]

I need to get some to till into my garden.  They are awesome fertilizer!

That's my plan as well. They are an absolute pain in the rear when fishing neah bay and a read an article two years ago saying to keep everyone you legally can because of how many there are anymore. I see no sense in even smoking them when there are chinook to be had.

I don't fish for pinks because I won't eat them.  I have friends who smoke them but with all the coho and steelhead that I catch, there is really no reason to go though the process for what I feel are third rate fish.  I do love the carcasses that I get from friends for my garden.  Pinks are a hoot to catch, especially in the salt but I have no desire to keep them.

Aren't you all special with your freezers overflowing with steelhead, sockeyes, etc....    Let's put down the fish that are available to more people than the elites, makes a lot of sense.     I have not yet had a person dislike any pink salmon I have served grilled or smoked that was caught out in the salt.  Yeah, I'd love to be raking in the kings and coho, etc. but would rather spend my limited leisure time filling the freezer than getting a once in a while "1st or 2nd rate" fish.   

Nice offers and feedback by some folks.

[PolarBear]

To each his own.    I also wouldn't put a chum in my freezer for anything,.  I fail to see where any of us has "put someone down" for their choosing to keep pinks?  You should be happy that some of us don't like them, it leaves more for you.

[Smossy]

SMoss,
That is some offer. I'd stop asking questions and accept a gracious, generous gift. Beer or not, people pay money for trips like that.

If Im not mistaken, Ripper is living a clean and sober lifestyle so there would be nothing on board. 
Id probably leave the offer open for other people who cant really get out and fish at all. Id feel like I was wasting a seat.

[Gobble Doc]

I have had pretty good luck smoking various fish over the years but the pinks I smoke are usually mushy.  Even with the immediate bleeding, bright fish, right onto ice after catching, the smoked fish is still mushy.  I must be doing something wrong.  Maybe more salt in the brine to reduce the moisture level in the fish.  Or maybe I just need to smoke longer and dry them out more? 

Are you guys that smoke pinks and having good luck doing a brine solution or a dry brine where you just put dry salt/sugar onto the fish? 

[Smossy]

I have had pretty good luck smoking various fish over the years but the pinks I smoke are usually mushy.  Even with the immediate bleeding, bright fish, right onto ice after catching, the smoked fish is still mushy.  I must be doing something wrong.  Maybe more salt in the brine to reduce the moisture level in the fish.  Or maybe I just need to smoke longer and dry them out more? 

Are you guys that smoke pinks and having good luck doing a brine solution or a dry brine where you just put dry salt/sugar onto the fish? 

Mushy? lol wth. Ive never had a problem with it. I usually use 2 cups of brown suger, to 1 cup of salt. + Whatever else I like depending on the fish species. That's usually my base though. Other things like garlic salt, old bay, pappy's seasoning. Combination spices have resulted my best tasting fish.

[CP]

Nothing wrong with smoked pinks:

[Ripper]

No no you are not wasting a seat! I've been telling you two for a while now that I plan on taking you fishing. You don't need to know anymore than how to reel them in. My lady will steer the boat, I'll set the downriggers and you just have to reel them in when I set the hook. So easy, a cave man could do it!   

[Smossy]

No no you are not wasting a seat! I've been telling you two for a while now that I plan on taking you fishing. You don't need to know anymore than how to reel them in. My lady will steer the boat, I'll set the downriggers and you just have to reel them in when I set the hook. So easy, a cave man could do it!   

Well lets do it then. Name a time and place.

[Ripper]

Sometime in July or August, Everett area. I hope that's not to limited.       Probably sometime after the crab outing. If you are going to camp up this way, we may be able to go the day after the crab outing. Let's play it by ear.