Had a blast on our annual summer chinook trip

• Jul 26, 2018

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Every year we head down and fish the upper Columbia for summer run and some sockeye if open. We hooked 22 fish in 3 hours on the opener and they decided to open the dam and ruined fishing rest of the day.. next am we lost 2.

 

• Jul 26, 2018

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LCH

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Congrats on a nice haul!

 

• Jul 26, 2018

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That's one of the better catches I've seen lately, nice work.

 

• Jul 26, 2018

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Looks like you have that fishery all figured out. Nothing fills out a freezer full of venison better than a few salmon fillets.

 

• Jul 29, 2018

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Nice work! I’d love to hit up them west coast rivers for trout and salmon!

 

• Jul 29, 2018

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Nice catch.
Can you satisfy my curiosity though, unless I'm seeing things I can't see any adipose fin's on any of those Salmon, why is that?
Thanks
Richard

 

• Jul 29, 2018

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Congratulations on some great fish and family time!

devon deer said:

Nice catch.
Can you satisfy my curiosity though, unless I'm seeing things I can't see any adipose fin's on any of those Salmon, why is that?
Thanks
Richard

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Richard, depending on the location, many of the steelhead and salmon fisheries only allow keeping hatchery fish which are marked by a clipped adipose fin. The wild fish have to be released.

 

• Jul 29, 2018

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Good weather. Nice haul!

 

• Jul 30, 2018

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devon deer

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Thanks for that, it makes sense.

Cheers

Richard

fishing4sanity said:

Congratulations on some great fish and family time!



Richard, depending on the location, many of the steelhead and salmon fisheries only allow keeping hatchery fish which are marked by a clipped adipose fin. The wild fish have to be released.

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• Jul 30, 2018

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Congrats on a great trip! I hope to get to do that one day.

 

• Aug 1, 2018

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I'm jealous. Congratulations on the good eats!