What's up with the pinks - All males?

[lokidog]

So Weathergirl and I went out today and got eight pinks for our limit off Eagle Point.  EVERY single one was a male.  The last two trips, each fish was a male as well.  Another guy I know got four last weekend, three males.  The first seven we got only two were females.

So, of 21 fish, only 3 have been hens.  This seems quite skewed to me.  Is there some issue with hen survival to return?  I have a zoology background but cannot explain this.

Anyone else noticed this?  We only released one really small fish so have not been just keeping the bigger ones or anything like that.

[FC]

We have been getting a pretty even mix.

[3nails]

 It's just been my personal experience but with big runs it seems the bucks hit the river first followed by the hens.  Say 70-30% then 30-70%.

[Goldeneye]

Also, it's not uncommon to see higher numbers of bucks early in the season.  I caught 8 on the
Skagit last weekend.  All were bucks.  Not worried about it.  A larger number of hen's usually come after the first push of fish.

[JKEEN33]

Been the opposite for us. We have brought in around 15 now and I think only around 3 were not hens.

[singleshot12]

Nice healthy brite pinks! way to go!   I 've noticed other years catching more bucks at first, figured they were more aggressive to biting when arriving 
Hey lokidog did you unload your inbox yet? 

[lokidog]

Weathergirl did a google search and came up with an answer.  The males come in first to establish a nest territory, from marinebio.net.

Inbox is available.   

[rasbo]

maybe they are capital hill humpies,Pardon the pun

[bigtex]

We have been getting a pretty even mix.

 

[Bearhunter]

Just got from Sekiu and the majority of the dozens we caught were males only a couple females.....

[Ripper]

Good job on the limits Lokidog, I'm still not catching limits down on Possession bar yet. Only a few here and there. I'm getting a mix of males and hens.

[PA BEN]

Out of the ten we caught off of PA, 3 were females a week ago.  I missed the last run but the one before out of PA most of the pinks were female.