Misclipped Hatchery Fish

[tmike]

Here's a misclip I released this past weekend. Nice fish. Didn't want to take a chance. The others I got were definitely wild fish. It felt good to get back out there, it's been awhile.

[Smossy]

Misclipped fish? You mean like a half clipped adipose?

[carpsniperg2]

We use to see a lot of them when I was steelhead fishing a lot. They are pretty tiny when they clip them and they don't get the whole fin a lot of the time.

[tmike]

Yes, half clipped adipose.

[jackelope]

They don't clip every hatchery fish. Looks like they missed a chunk on that guy.

[Smossy]

Ive caught a few of those, If its clipped at all and already healed. Ill keep it and argue it to my grave.

[wildweeds]

That was a keeper,my buddy is an assistant hatchery manager on the eastside,he says when your clipping a certain percentage get missclipped from wiggles when the snip takes place.He said as long as it's not normal looking and not fresh,like you nipped it off after catching it,your golden.

[rtspring]

Better safe than sorry!!! Nice fish..

[Damnimissed]

That's pretty bad that I can tell exactly where you're at by the log jam in the background lol

[tmike]

It didn't really bother me to release it except I wouldn't have minded getting it out of the system. No wild fish allowed there, but that would have been the one case where I gave it the wood shampoo.

[tmike]

In a few days that log jam might be gone.

[wildweeds]

RT your purty gunshy after the rifle hosing ain't ya!Seriously though my buddy says that the help they get for minimum wage on the fish clipping ain't that great and after about 5 hours of it the quality goes WAAAAY downhill.Not much pride of a good job goes into it I guess.He said he absolutely hates doing it.

Better safe than sorry!!! Nice fish..

[huntnphool]

We have caught a lot of unclipped hatchery fish on the Queets, the Indian hatchery on the Salmon puts out a ton of them.

[tmike]

The Queets has the credit card rule for the dorsal, at least it used to. That was a joke.

[_TONY_]

The Queets has the credit card rule for the dorsal, at least it used to. That was a joke.

They still do.

The rule is, if you can pinch the adipose fin between your index finger and thumb, it's gotta go back... Its a pretty crappy rule when you absolutely know it's a hatchery fish and not a wild fish with a misshapened adipose...