Commercial Salmon Trolling Forum

by **Salty** » Thu Jan 05, 2012 10:25 pm

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by **Salty** » Thu Jan 05, 2012 10:26 pm

: 34 Pound Chinook.jpg (37.29 KiB) Viewed 12773 times

by **Salty** » Thu Jan 05, 2012 10:26 pm

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by **Salty** » Thu Jan 05, 2012 10:27 pm

It is late, but cool idea abundance. Now if we can get some others to post we might get something going.

by **Abundance** » Thu Jan 05, 2012 11:43 pm

Nice pictures. I particularly liked the sardine and mystery fish photos. I remember when those sardines swarmed in around here a few years ago. It was fun seeing something completely different. I didn't think to take a picture of them, and regret it. I suppose that one of the things that I hope to see on here are pictures like that, of odd creatures that we found out there. I remember, around ten years ago or more, a flood of Atka mackerel coming through. We just couldn't keep them off of our gear. They stayed all year, then slowly dwindled off. We had never seen them before, and never seen them since. We kept one in the freezer until we could find out what they even were. I've looked up pictures since, but I wish that I had taken some of my own. I may never get to see one again, and a reminder would have been nice. And I know that it is getting on a bit to start digging through past photos, as everybody is gearing up for a new years worth of fishing, but found a number of them while looking through my scenery photos and decided to put them up before I forgot about them. I am curious to see what other people come up with.

by **Abundance** » Thu Jan 05, 2012 11:50 pm

I love oranges.

by **Abundance** » Thu Jan 05, 2012 11:52 pm

We are not the only ones who eat salmon.

by **Abundance** » Thu Jan 05, 2012 11:57 pm

A little wolf eel. They taste like chicken!

by **Abundance** » Fri Jan 06, 2012 12:01 am

The near final resting place of many fish.

by **Abundance** » Fri Jan 06, 2012 12:10 pm

A pipefish, related to seahorses. I have watched the females give the eggs to the male to raise. They are very weird animals. Easy to catch with your bare hands too.

by **Abundance** » Fri Jan 06, 2012 12:15 pm

A better picture of a wolf eel. Don't let one get ahold of you, or going to be missing a finger.

by **Abundance** » Fri Jan 06, 2012 3:00 pm

A little sturgeon.

by **Kittiwake** » Wed Dec 05, 2012 2:45 pm

Salty, that little mystery fish is a pacific sandfish, Trichodon trichodon. One of the less frequently encountered forage fish. Was this in a stomach?

by **Salty** » Wed Dec 05, 2012 4:14 pm

Correct, was spit up by a coho. Most often these fish breakdown so fast you see little more than the jaw. In some areas they are quite abundant, like Icy Straits. I will look up their life cycle. Thanks a lot.