Atlantic Salmon in the Skykomish

[Ebell]

I’ve been trying to catch my first steelhead this year, been out three times, thought I had one above the Sultan pool tonight. Instead I caught this fish. Female, underdeveloped eggs, tiny stomach. Didn’t put up too much of a fight, stayed deep, took some line.

[jackelope]

Dang. That sucks. Did you kill it?

[Ebell]

Oh yes, she came home with me.

[throwingsticks]

Wow! it looks in good shape... Did you report it?

[Boss .300 winmag]

Hopefully he ate it, they aren’t bad. 

[lokidog]

That is a surprise. With no evidence of them actually eating anything in the 100 or so I had first hand knowledge of last Fall, it's hard to believe any are still alive.

Still, puts to rest any notion that they might be up the rivers spawning....

I'm curious to hear how fatty the meat is when you cook it.  I'd guess it is pretty lean at this point.

[kodiak 907]

They are way up the skagit as well. Caught a hen in late December and a spawned out buck middle of January.

[Skillet]

They are way up the skagit as well. Caught a hen in late December and a spawned out buck middle of January.

You sure it was spawned our and not just an immature fish?

[kodiak 907]

7-8 pound fish. It looked like a mature fish to me. No reproductive material left at all inside.

Fed it to the eagles.

[The scout]

Should make good crab bait. Don’t really see how it proves it can’t spawn. Just because it’s eggs are immature? It doesn’t instantly become a mature fish it could take a year or 2 more

[MightyWhite]

Caught one while plugging 15 years ago below buck island on the Sky....it was a buck about 10 lbs....pretty weird back then