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Offline lokidog

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What's up with the pinks - All males?
« on: August 14, 2011, 06:10:58 PM »
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.

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Re: What's up with the pinks - All males?
« Reply #1 on: August 14, 2011, 06:15:49 PM »
We have been getting a pretty even mix.
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Re: What's up with the pinks - All males?
« Reply #2 on: August 14, 2011, 06:17:46 PM »
 It's just been my personal experience but with big runs it seems the bucks hit the river first followed by the hens.  :dunno: Say 70-30% then 30-70%.
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Re: What's up with the pinks - All males?
« Reply #3 on: August 14, 2011, 06:18:50 PM »
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.
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Re: What's up with the pinks - All males?
« Reply #4 on: August 14, 2011, 06:22:58 PM »
Been the opposite for us. We have brought in around 15 now and I think only around 3 were not hens.
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Re: What's up with the pinks - All males?
« Reply #5 on: August 14, 2011, 06:23:37 PM »
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  :dunno:
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Re: What's up with the pinks - All males?
« Reply #6 on: August 14, 2011, 09:43:19 PM »
Weathergirl did a google search and came up with an answer.  The males come in first to establish a nest territory, from marinebio.net.

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Re: What's up with the pinks - All males?
« Reply #7 on: August 14, 2011, 09:45:25 PM »
maybe they are capital hill humpies,Pardon the pun :dunno: :chuckle:
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Re: What's up with the pinks - All males?
« Reply #8 on: August 15, 2011, 11:40:57 AM »
Quote from: FC on August 14, 2011, 06:15:49 PM
We have been getting a pretty even mix.

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Re: What's up with the pinks - All males?
« Reply #9 on: August 15, 2011, 12:19:09 PM »
Just got from Sekiu and the majority of the dozens we caught were males only a couple females.....
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Re: What's up with the pinks - All males?
« Reply #10 on: August 15, 2011, 03:10:10 PM »
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.
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Re: What's up with the pinks - All males?
« Reply #11 on: August 15, 2011, 04:16:05 PM »
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. :dunno:
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