Anyone excited about pinks?

[PolarBear]

I'm excited, I'm almost out of crab bait!   

[carpsniperg2]

Any fishing is something to get excited about.

[Camp David]

You boys give those little guys a bad rap. If you only keep the bright ones, bleed em right away, gut em shortly after and make sure that they are on ice...they make a great dinner. I only smoke em after I freeze em or send em down for halibut.

[PolarBear]

That was out best halibut bait in Alaska, pink fillets cut into tentacles like and octopus.  Big halibut candy!

[Gobble Doc]

Kids are getting excited.

We'll fish either the Snohomish close to home or another close river with a 5 wt and floating line.  It can be a hoot when a wave comes up the river and you just cast into a pod of fins.  It's one time I enjoy the zoo.   

If you're going to keep a couple just try to bleed and get on ice ASAP.  Don't wait.  Or you can eat with a spoon.   

[BigGoonTuna]

they're fun to catch, but i like them even better because they soak up all the pressure and you can get some peace and quiet summer run steelhead fishing.

[bentley30-06]

Anytime I can go and catch decent sized fish damn near every cast and release those sorry suckers for the next smuck downstream, I get excited  .  But seriously I enjoy fishing when the pinks run because it adds a lot more action in between catching those silvers and kings....

[Alchase]

They can be a blast to catch, the biggest drawback is they tend to bring out the worst of fishermen. Trash all over the rivers, pink yarn, pink shrimp, and pink okie drifters in every tree within 20 yards of the river. Watching some people fillet up the really really dark ones, you know the ones that are swimming back downstream    can really turn your stomach  I watched some people keep some so dark they could have been out of a zombie fish movie. I expected fins to fall off as they carried them away.
It is nice to see the rivers full of fish.....to bad they have to be spawned out pinks, instead of chromer silvers, kings and steelhead.
 
Does anyone know why they increased the pink runs so much instead of say silvers? Cost can't be much more and silvers would be a much better fish 

[BOWHUNTER45]

I will be catching the hens for their eggs and will not take a single buck.  I will smoke the fish and will most likely give all it away or at least give it away for the cost of the smoking.

   

[BOWHUNTER45]

They can be a blast to catch, the biggest drawback is they tend to bring out the worst of fishermen. Trash all over the rivers, pink yarn, pink shrimp, and pink okie drifters in every tree within 20 yards of the river. Watching some people fillet up the really really dark ones, you know the ones that are swimming back downstream    can really turn your stomach  I watched some people keep some so dark they could have been out of a zombie fish movie. I expected fins to fall off as they carried them away.
It is nice to see the rivers full of fish.....to bad they have to be spawned out pinks, instead of chromer silvers, kings and steelhead.
 
Does anyone know why they increased the pink runs so much instead of say silvers? Cost can't be much more and silvers would be a much better fish 

[CP]

I like them when they are bright, caught out of salt water in July or Aug.  I don’t fish for them in the rivers or late in the season.

[Heartsblood]

I am waay excited!

I'll bet anyone here $100 dollars that I will enjoy eating pinks when I catch 'em this season...

Any takers?

 

Aww c'mon now....

[Button Nubbs]

Ill take that bet as long as I can catch the fish. Why don't we have the bet in say october?

[BOWHUNTER45]

I am waay excited!

I'll bet anyone here $100 dollars that I will enjoy eating pinks when I catch 'em this season...

Any takers?

 

Aww c'mon now....

  I hear ya ..I cooked silvers and humps one time at a huge Bq and no one knew the difference ...they were bright but I prefer sockeye steelhead and silvers ..

[WSU]

They can be a blast to catch, the biggest drawback is they tend to bring out the worst of fishermen. Trash all over the rivers, pink yarn, pink shrimp, and pink okie drifters in every tree within 20 yards of the river. Watching some people fillet up the really really dark ones, you know the ones that are swimming back downstream    can really turn your stomach  I watched some people keep some so dark they could have been out of a zombie fish movie. I expected fins to fall off as they carried them away.
It is nice to see the rivers full of fish.....to bad they have to be spawned out pinks, instead of chromer silvers, kings and steelhead.
 
Does anyone know why they increased the pink runs so much instead of say silvers? Cost can't be much more and silvers would be a much better fish 

"They" didn't increase the humpy runs.  They are not hatchery fish.