Toutle Salmon

[Kingsnake1]

I am new here and just wanted to share a couple Salmon I caught on the Toutle River the past 3 weeks.
King


Silver

[Jake Dogfish]

Nice fish! Welcome. 

[Alchase]

Nice!

[carlyoungs]

Nice fish!

[spoonman]

Bottom one is nice but that top one you won’t wanna eat!

[Dan-o]

Thanks for sharing!

Good luck.

[The Gobble-stopper]

Speaking of the top one. I took two chinook just like that home in the last three weeks from the Toutle. And thought I could smoke them Turned out I was wrong! They cut firm and bright pink. I was shocked one was dark on the outside, the other deep red going to dark. Could not tell the difference between them and the bright silvers when fried! They even had a couple sea lice on them, yet were dark. Dunno, it fooled me.

[HikerHunter]

Nice looking fish!

[Kingsnake1]

Yea guys your correct, That King was way to dark to have pink meat so I set him free....  Even though it took 25 or so minutes to get him to the bank, he swam away..
His meat would have been a light yellow andnot good to eat.  He was supper fun to catch though!

The second one is in my freezer and is looking great!

[OutHouse]

Very nice! I love river bank salmon fishing.