caught my first real fish

Some decent sized white springs have been beasts to play out.

And humpback is a better sounding name.

Anyone ever seen a cherry salmon around here? Or do they only stay on the other side of the Pacific? They'ze supposed to be real good eatin'.

White spring mostly run in the early spring and light pink spring run in the fall, isn't this the general rule?

Only ever saw dark pink springs (I think this is what you mean by cherry color flesh) in late summer as it was salt chuck fishing in Cowichan bay Genoa bay. This was back in my teen years when the fish were bigger. The beast was 36 lbs took and about an hour to land it! Never had anything like it since. I was told that they are all the same fish, what they eat in the open ocean is what determines their flavor and flesh color. Seemed to make sense to me, you are what you eat.

fair play on the chum in the ssshhmoker; but don't know many who eat the pinkies

Hardly anyone eats humpys, but they are good fresh on the BBQ like fillis said (never tried the berries though). We used to eat them on the boat during sockeye season because they are small enough for a couple people and the companies paid us so little for them they were cheaper to eat than potatoes.

Anyone here ever snorkeled down the Campbell river from below elk falls in the summer? Did it last July; tons of fish in there at that time so awesome.

Would highly recommend it to you islanders

That was a staple when growing up there. Usually did it on tubes.

This thread is useless without pics. 30lber:

whens the crab run start?

Depends how itchy you get.

You can trap crabs year round as long as it complies with the regulations in the area. There are times of the year when they molt and the meat isn't very good, you can tell by their soft shells and you should just throw them back.

Depends how itchy you get.

You can trap crabs year round as long as it complies with the regulations in the area. There are times of the year when they molt and the meat isn't very good, you can tell by their soft shells and you should just throw them back.

jokes there guy

Fishing is srs bsness

Nice fish!

Single action reels FTW!

That's a fly reel on a fifteen foot spey rod.

over 35, fish also

cohos are more feisty in my opinion.

cohos run straight at you, fight's over in a few minutes

springs will pull 1000 feet of line and keep going if they don't run out of water