Post by: deerhunter_98520 on February 12, 2015, 09:00:22 AM
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Post by: Widgeondeke on February 12, 2015, 09:04:22 AM
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Post by: HUNTINCOUPLE on February 12, 2015, 09:14:33 AM
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Post by: deerhunter_98520 on February 12, 2015, 10:14:07 AM
Post by: jackmaster on February 12, 2015, 10:18:11 AM
Post by: wildmanoutdoors on February 12, 2015, 10:45:56 AM
Late January and early Feb is there return time. Dont hire a guide when the nets are in!!!!!!
Post by: wildmanoutdoors on February 12, 2015, 10:55:25 AM
There huge because they have to help sustain the bigfoot population.
Post by: jackmaster on February 12, 2015, 10:59:53 AM
Thats a QIN lake hatchery fish caught in a net. Look at the dorsal! The Lake hatchery is a brood stock program they do. They net a few sets of male and female natives swimming thru the lake and hold em till they spawn.thank you for the info :tup: thats why I love this site..
Late January and early Feb is there return time. Dont hire a guide when the nets are in!!!!!!
Post by: canyonduck on February 12, 2015, 11:09:45 AM
Post by: RaffleMule on February 12, 2015, 11:17:15 AM
Post by: Forks on February 12, 2015, 12:51:52 PM
Post by: Bullkllr on February 12, 2015, 01:08:51 PM
Besides being a broodstock program it must also be a harvest program.
Stud fish just the same.
Post by: BigGoonTuna on February 12, 2015, 01:54:58 PM
I would rather clean floors and toilets than support those folks. To each is own I guess.yep, it's always seemed like a big slap in the face to us sportsmen that they net the hell out of the chehalis, humptulips and queets systems, but the lower quinault gets big returns of fish because they actually manage it(and keep it off limits unless you have a guide). every one of those other rivers would have as good of fishing if they weren't hammered by the QIN's nets. not to mention the irony of the quinault hatchery being run by the US federal government in a sovereign nation.
Post by: _TONY_ on February 12, 2015, 02:30:39 PM
I would rather clean floors and toilets than support those folks. To each is own I guess.
+10000000000
Quinn's are the worst... Don't given them any $$
Post by: Dan-o on February 12, 2015, 02:40:23 PM
Those are some AMAZING steelhead!
Post by: wildmanoutdoors on February 12, 2015, 03:13:04 PM
Shame the ones in the pictures were not "held for spawning"...
Besides being a broodstock program it must also be a harvest program.
Stud fish just the same.
Brood stock fish are netted in the lake as they head up the upper river. These fish are netted in the lower river and sent to New York and such to resturants. Thats why there dead at the Fishhouse in Tahola.
So yes! They are created for harvest!
By netting in the lake it insures pure native strain. Useing these big hatchery fish to broodstock would eventually lead to a poorer genetic strain.
Post by: Bullkllr on February 12, 2015, 03:43:20 PM
Shame the ones in the pictures were not "held for spawning"...
Besides being a broodstock program it must also be a harvest program.
Stud fish just the same.
Brood stock fish are netted in the lake as they head up the upper river. These fish are netted in the lower river and sent to New York and such to resturants. Thats why there dead at the Fishhouse in Tahola.
So yes! They are created for harvest!
By netting in the lake it insures pure native strain. Useing these big hatchery fish to broodstock would eventually lead to a poorer genetic strain.
Thanks. I'm somewhat aware of the general way the coast tribes run their fisheries.
So they must also capture at the hatchery at the lake and sell the surplus? (OP said "made it all the way to the hatchery") or the fish was gillnetted lower on the river and never made it to the hatchery. Not that it matters, but that what I was wondering when I saw the pic.
Post by: wildmanoutdoors on February 12, 2015, 04:05:58 PM
Shame the ones in the pictures were not "held for spawning"...
Besides being a broodstock program it must also be a harvest program.
Stud fish just the same.
Brood stock fish are netted in the lake as they head up the upper river. These fish are netted in the lower river and sent to New York and such to resturants. Thats why there dead at the Fishhouse in Tahola.
So yes! They are created for harvest!
By netting in the lake it insures pure native strain. Useing these big hatchery fish to broodstock would eventually lead to a poorer genetic strain.
Thanks. I'm somewhat aware of the general way the coast tribes run their fisheries.
So they must also capture at the hatchery at the lake and sell the surplus? (OP said "made it all the way to the hatchery") or the fish was gillnetted lower on the river and never made it to the hatchery. Not that it matters, but that what I was wondering when I saw the pic.
Yes and no, if the hatchery fish makes it back and they capture it they will send it to the fish house. All hatchery fish are surpus that make it back. They only use pure wild fish for brooding.
Post by: deerhunter_98520 on February 12, 2015, 05:15:32 PM
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Post by: deerhunter_98520 on February 12, 2015, 05:43:20 PM
Post by: Bullkllr on February 12, 2015, 05:59:54 PM
All I was told was that this fish made it back to the hatchery....no matter where it came from I thought it was worth sharing with everyone because of its size...I have no idea if that's what happened for sure that's just what I was told...but you guys know how trophy pics and stories get twisted throughout the grapevine......you just don't see 30+lb steelhead very often....or at least I don't
Oh, I see 'em every week.... :chuckle:
Thanks for sharing the pic. I had not seen it. And a fish that big deserves to be celebrated.
Post by: h2ofowlr on February 12, 2015, 06:09:07 PM
I got this pic sent to me today....this huge buck made it all the way to the hatchery on the quinault...was told it weighed 32lbs! :yike:
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This picture went around last week on Fishing Addicts. It said it was caught in a tribal net.
Post by: RaffleMule on February 12, 2015, 06:56:42 PM
Post by: deerhunter_98520 on February 12, 2015, 07:17:54 PM
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Post by: Coastal_native on February 12, 2015, 09:00:13 PM
Post by: Dan-o on February 12, 2015, 09:04:35 PM
Actually, to be honest...I caught it with hook and line and let this guy take a picture with it. So...I guess I win?
Were you with a native guide? ;)
Post by: deerhunter_98520 on February 13, 2015, 05:48:38 AM
Actually, to be honest...I caught it with hook and line and let this guy take a picture with it. So...I guess I win?
Need a fishing partner? I won't give up the secret honey homes :chuckle:
Post by: fishnfur on February 14, 2015, 10:34:45 AM
Anybody remember a short article in STS, probably 20 - 30 years ago, about a 53ish lb. steelhead some commercial guys caught out in the ocean in their nets? They released it but snapped a couple of pics before doing so. THAT was a big steelhead! (I tried to find it online but came up empty).
Post by: _TONY_ on February 16, 2015, 05:44:58 AM
Heck of a nice fish. I thought the big ones hit the Quinault in March. Perhaps that is just the natives??
Anybody remember a short article in STS, probably 20 - 30 years ago, about a 53ish lb. steelhead some commercial guys caught out in the ocean in their nets? They released it but snapped a couple of pics before doing so. THAT was a big steelhead! (I tried to find it online but came up empty).
Yep, they believe that it was a fish that could not reach sexual maturity and just kept swimming and feeding with no urge to return to river.