Fish checkers

[Born2late]

This sounds like a fishing trip  that I had a few  weeks  ago, I posted the pic on FB on area 1-13 fishing, we marked it on card as a silver.   It sounds like the same lady, our fish was getting dark, very slimy, caught down past Richmond  Beach heading toward Shilshole.    She showed us why she called it a sockeye  but also took a picture to show her boss.   The tongue was white, no teeth to speak of.   After looking it over and researching some more, I think she is right.   First sockeye we ever ran across in the salt , or at least that I know of.    It was 7.09 pound

Well she might have been right on our fish.
Looking at the picture ours was similar I think.
https://hunting-washington.com/smf/index.php/topic,280622.0.html
This picture of his silver has a dark tail that has no silver in it either.
So I don’t know.

[ducks4days]

The irony of folks on here railing against this girl for not knowing how to ID a coho vs sockeye only for her to be right is pretty funny.

[2MANY]

LOL.

[huntandjeep]

Two days ago in Tokeland they were only checking every other boat. WTF is with that? Something fishy going on. One of the checkers didn't know a coho from a Chinook. 

Gal that checked us in Chinook was only checking half the boats . Said it had to do with her being alone on a busy weekend.  Said they average the count . Another  way the great State gets an accurate fish count of harvested fish . Did you also know that every fish  released goes against the harvest quota .

[jay.sharkbait]

Two days ago in Tokeland they were only checking every other boat. WTF is with that? Something fishy going on. One of the checkers didn't know a coho from a Chinook. 

Gal that checked us in Chinook was only checking half the boats . Said it had to do with her being alone on a busy weekend.  Said they average the count . Another  way the great State gets an accurate fish count of harvested fish . Did you also know that every fish  released goes against the harvest quota .

This is why I think that we should keep native and hatchery fish and use barbed hooks.

[Happy Gilmore]

The 3 at sekiu weren't even walking the docks or getting out of their tent.

[jay.sharkbait]

The 3 at sekiu weren't even walking the docks or getting out of their tent.

I think all they were doing were counting boats and people.

[huntandjeep]

Two days ago in Tokeland they were only checking every other boat. WTF is with that? Something fishy going on. One of the checkers didn't know a coho from a Chinook. 

Gal that checked us in Chinook was only checking half the boats . Said it had to do with her being alone on a busy weekend.  Said they average the count . Another  way the great State gets an accurate fish count of harvested fish . Did you also know that every fish  released goes against the harvest quota .

This is why I think that we should keep native and hatchery fish and use barbed hooks.

Or when they ask " how many released " just answer 0

[jay.sharkbait]

Two days ago in Tokeland they were only checking every other boat. WTF is with that? Something fishy going on. One of the checkers didn't know a coho from a Chinook. 

Gal that checked us in Chinook was only checking half the boats . Said it had to do with her being alone on a busy weekend.  Said they average the count . Another  way the great State gets an accurate fish count of harvested fish . Did you also know that every fish  released goes against the harvest quota .

This is why I think that we should keep native and hatchery fish and use barbed hooks.

Or when they ask " how many released " just answer 0

That is policy with our group. It probably doesn’t matter though.

[huntandjeep]

Two days ago in Tokeland they were only checking every other boat. WTF is with that? Something fishy going on. One of the checkers didn't know a coho from a Chinook. 

Gal that checked us in Chinook was only checking half the boats . Said it had to do with her being alone on a busy weekend.  Said they average the count . Another  way the great State gets an accurate fish count of harvested fish . Did you also know that every fish  released goes against the harvest quota .

This is why I think that we should keep native and hatchery fish and use barbed hooks.

Or when they ask " how many released " just answer 0

That is policy with our group. It probably doesn’t matter though.

Ours also . They are probably amazed that all we ever catch are keepers 

[Happy Gilmore]

The 3 at sekiu weren't even walking the docks or getting out of their tent.

We netted around 75-85 fish on swiftsure to get 5 limits on Aug 5th. Granted around half were pinks. We kept a few to fill the limit when it was time to go.

[bullcanyon]

We came into Canby by ilwaco last Friday and she was only checking for crab. She said 13% of boats were crabbing. One of the biggest fisheries in the nw being the b10 fishery and they don't care 🤷‍♂️ Not her fault, she's only doing what they have instructed her to do.