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Other Activities => Fishing => Topic started by: Ebell on January 08, 2018, 07:45:13 PM

Title: Atlantic Salmon in the Skykomish
Post by: Ebell on January 08, 2018, 07:45:13 PM: I’ve been trying to catch my first steelhead this year, been out three times, thought I had one above the Sultan pool tonight. Instead I caught this fish. Female, underdeveloped eggs, tiny stomach. Didn’t put up too much of a fight, stayed deep, took some line.
Title: Re: Atlantic Salmon in the Skykomish
Post by: jackelope on January 08, 2018, 07:50:17 PM: Dang. That sucks. Did you kill it?
Title: Re: Atlantic Salmon in the Skykomish
Post by: Ebell on January 08, 2018, 07:55:58 PM: Oh yes, she came home with me.
Title: Re: Atlantic Salmon in the Skykomish
Post by: throwingsticks on January 08, 2018, 08:32:12 PM: Wow! it looks in good shape... Did you report it?
Title: Re: Atlantic Salmon in the Skykomish
Post by: Boss .300 winmag on January 08, 2018, 08:33:29 PM: Hopefully he ate it, they aren’t bad. :twocents:
Title: Re: Atlantic Salmon in the Skykomish
Post by: lokidog on January 08, 2018, 09:00:38 PM: That is a surprise. With no evidence of them actually eating anything in the 100 or so I had first hand knowledge of last Fall, it's hard to believe any are still alive.

Still, puts to rest any notion that they might be up the rivers spawning....

I'm curious to hear how fatty the meat is when you cook it. I'd guess it is pretty lean at this point.
Title: Re: Atlantic Salmon in the Skykomish
Post by: kodiak 907 on February 08, 2018, 11:02:57 AM: They are way up the skagit as well. Caught a hen in late December and a spawned out buck middle of January.
Title: Re: Atlantic Salmon in the Skykomish
Post by: Skillet on February 13, 2018, 12:08:48 PM: Quote from: kodiak 907 on February 08, 2018, 11:02:57 AM
They are way up the skagit as well. Caught a hen in late December and a spawned out buck middle of January.

You sure it was spawned our and not just an immature fish?
Title: Re: Atlantic Salmon in the Skykomish
Post by: kodiak 907 on February 13, 2018, 02:04:02 PM: 7-8 pound fish. It looked like a mature fish to me. No reproductive material left at all inside.

Fed it to the eagles.
Title: Re: Atlantic Salmon in the Skykomish
Post by: The scout on February 13, 2018, 04:00:42 PM: Should make good crab bait. Don’t really see how it proves it can’t spawn. Just because it’s eggs are immature? It doesn’t instantly become a mature fish it could take a year or 2 more
Title: Re: Atlantic Salmon in the Skykomish
Post by: MightyWhite on February 13, 2018, 05:36:18 PM: Caught one while plugging 15 years ago below buck island on the Sky....it was a buck about 10 lbs....pretty weird back then