Pink humpies...

[rainshadow1]

---Good crab bait!

 

Great for hanging bait. For shrimp too.

[jackelope]

When I was growing up my friends and I would have humpie tournaments almost every day in AK.. there were some days I landed 200+ fish mostly just kicked them loose.  I was just wondering if they were considered table fish in washington

if anything i think they're considered good in the smoker if they're from the salt or down low in the rivers...my neighbor catches a ton of them in the snohomish and smokes them. they're still bright with little to no "hump" and they smoke up good. i've tried them on the grill and they're mediocre at best and only from the salt. not worth keeping if you ask me.

[WDFW-SUX]

Id never eat a male..some of the females that are in salt are tempting but.......

[jackelope]

they're also a ton of fun for kids. i took my buddy and his 9 year old boy 2 years ago and floated the sky. we caught so many fish the kid was sleeping in my boat while we were floating back to the take out. he was shot.
he didn't care if they were good eating or not.

[GoldTip]

We nailed a half dozen or so of the Humpies off of Sekiu a couple weeks back.  BBQ'ed on the first night we were there, it was pretty good eats.  Nothing like the chinooks we caught of course, but hey not too bad.  Am smoking the rest of them.

[dirty.dan4]

You guys are crazy, pinks are good to me. Do me a favor and send them my way and I will eat them

[Happy Gilmore]

In the salt I think they smoke as well as any fish. In the river I like flyfishing for them and might smoke a bright one. Usually, our contests are for the biggest, ugliest buck of the day.....Broke my humpy Cortland 6-7 previous run. Replaced with an older Orvis 7. Looking forward to it. I think I've found some new slots for casting close to home for quick trips on the river.

[MuleySniper]

I crack up at all my buddies that ask if I'm going pink fishing!! Why in the hell would I target those little nasties when there are Kings right now?! Like some of you others are saying, Im sure its a kick to catch em on a fly rod, but I wouldn't go out just targeting them. Shoot, silvers should start showing up pretty soon too.
MS

[jackelope]

cuzz where we fish them there's no kings and a couple weeks before silvers...

[MuleySniper]

cuzz where we fish them there's no kings and a couple weeks before silvers...

NO KINGS??!! Sucks for you guys!

[PolarBear]

still early but the hoodsport hatchery has been getting some. i fished there yesterday morning and got one. my buddy fished last 2 mornings and got 4. he ate one said it was good. i tossed mine back. they will be in soon in numbers!

The tribe has been netting across the creek at the Hoodsport hatchery this week.  Today they had it completely blocked off with their nets.  That is great, we pay to raise the fish and the tribe steals them from us at the hatchery. 

[Tony 270WSM]

Would be a shame if something were to happen to their nets.

[WDFW-SUX]

hay bails 

[couesbitten]

humpie tournaments

  He said humpie tournaments

[sisu]

Id never eat a male..some of the females that are in salt are tempting but.......

and whatever cohoho and klickman said.
Males are throw aways, females with sea lice on them go in the smoker or fillets for my hunting dogs.