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Title: What's up with the pinks - All males?
Post by: lokidog 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.
Title: Re: What's up with the pinks - All males?
Post by: FC on August 14, 2011, 06:15:49 PM: We have been getting a pretty even mix.
Title: Re: What's up with the pinks - All males?
Post by: 3nails 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%.
Title: Re: What's up with the pinks - All males?
Post by: Goldeneye 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.
Title: Re: What's up with the pinks - All males?
Post by: JKEEN33 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.
Title: Re: What's up with the pinks - All males?
Post by: singleshot12 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:
Hey lokidog did you unload your inbox yet? :)
Title: Re: What's up with the pinks - All males?
Post by: lokidog 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.

Inbox is available. :)
Title: Re: What's up with the pinks - All males?
Post by: rasbo on August 14, 2011, 09:45:25 PM: maybe they are capital hill humpies,Pardon the pun :dunno: :chuckle:
Title: Re: What's up with the pinks - All males?
Post by: bigtex 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.

:yeah:
Title: Re: What's up with the pinks - All males?
Post by: Bearhunter 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.....
Title: Re: What's up with the pinks - All males?
Post by: Ripper 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.
Title: Re: What's up with the pinks - All males?
Post by: PA BEN 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: