Misclipped Hatchery Fish

[Fishaholic]

I clipped fins for a while for kelly services and that is caused by pure lazyness. Clipoing salmon fry fins off is a simple job. Im sorry that happened to you.

[PolarBear]

Had that happen to me on the Hump last month.  The fish was obviously a brat but still had it's fins intact so back it went.

[Fishaholic]

Had that happen to me on the Hump last month.  The fish was obviously a brat but still had it's fins intact so back it went.

the hump hatchry was having problems with reliable clippers for a week or so when I was clipping. 

[huntnphool]

Had that happen to me on the Hump last month.  The fish was obviously a brat but still had it's fins intact so back it went.

the hump hatchry was having problems with reliable clippers for a week or so when I was clipping.

Infiltration of tree huggers?

[Fishaholic]

Had that happen to me on the Hump last month.  The fish was obviously a brat but still had it's fins intact so back it went.

the hump hatchry was having problems with reliable clippers for a week or so when I was clipping.

Infiltration of tree huggers?

Haha no when you clip fish your hands are in cold water and people dont finish the whole cut or they are just lazy  or there had to be so many fish clipped in a day and they had to stay late and was in a hurry. It all comes down to being lazy.

[huntnphool]

Had that happen to me on the Hump last month.  The fish was obviously a brat but still had it's fins intact so back it went.

the hump hatchry was having problems with reliable clippers for a week or so when I was clipping.

Infiltration of tree huggers?

It all comes down to being lazy.

Or having a different agenda!

[Jonathan_S]

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

Several years ago out at Ilwaco we caught live 8-10 fish in a row that were unclipped   

[Bullkllr]

Nice fish! That's a whoppin' chunk of a hatchery buck! And thanks for leaving the nate in the water!

[Shane54]

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

That log jam is always fishy!

[dreamunelk]

Doesn't the two inch rule still apply on the Queets?

[Mr Mykiss]

My
Seeing as how that there is a 21.34 pounder it's likely that this is his third or fourth spawning run and my money says that some jackhole cut off part of his fin on one of his prior runs...or not. It's a theory.

[GurrCentral]

Have caught quite a few misclip's in central WA rivers the last couple years.... (and yes I am talking about misclips, not hatchery origin fish that have not been clipped at all)..kind of frustrating..

[Mr Mykiss]

Have caught quite a few misclip's in central WA rivers the last couple years.... (and yes I am talking about misclips, not hatchery origin fish that have not been clipped at all)..kind of frustrating..

Bet they weren't 26 pounders like this one!!

[arees]

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..

Lets raise the minimum wage.  I know some guys who designed a machine for clipping the fins.  If minimum wage is high enough it makes the machine a good buy. 

[GurrCentral]

Have caught quite a few misclip's in central WA rivers the last couple years.... (and yes I am talking about misclips, not hatchery origin fish that have not been clipped at all)..kind of frustrating..

Bet they weren't 26 pounders like this one!!

26 pounder  .......