Jeremy Loc: America

Maybe. I use to work in Italian restaurant and it was considered the best food at that time by a study. I got nothing against anyone from anywhere.

NJ219bands Loc: New Jersey

Wow 😮

ChuckFasst Loc: NW Oregon

Looks like a hella catch to me. 😀

smithma

people that dont know what they are talking about ought to shut up. beautiful fish, good eating, and not runing any fishery. go back to your puny bass and trouser trout.

Wahoo lat 18 Loc: St Thomas USVI

That is a beautiful female salmon I’m sure she was a blast to catch and will be delicious on the plate. As long as the hatcheries are doing their job there is no problem with keeping that fish. When I lived in Alaska we had multiple types of hatchery, state run facilities, and private co-ops of Combinations of Gillnetters, seiners, trollers,Etc. In Ketchikan Alaska I fished The mouth of their return stream. Depending on how good the run was we were allowed from 1 to 12 (banner years) Per day. We would Fish through the dark ones and keep the silver ones to vacuum seal for Winters dinner.

FixorFish Loc: SW Oregon

LMFAO.......just exactly what I was thinking as I read comments from a Bay boy and a Floridian.

I will take one picture of a fine salmonid over the myriad of daily posts stating "I'm going tomorrow" followed by a post a day or two later from the same guy(s) with several pics of virtually the exact same "smallie"(apropos name, regarding size in pics) over and over, week in, week out. Fish that wouldn't even excite a child or newbie.....much less provide any epicurean delight.

But hey....if you had fun and felt like a hero by sharing....you go right ahead. Most certainly will help keep your "post count" up in the standings, and of course, garner a few strokes from the faithful, will it not ?
And those are the primary goals of doing so, aren't they ?........hehehe.

kyle1234 Loc: Roseville. Ca

I have been reading these comments for some time. I wasn't going to get in the fray but what the hell. First I'm amazed at the stupidity of some of the comments even as far away as Florida. That guy probably never saw a live, or dead, Pacific Coast Salmon. As Glennthen says, the only salmon to eat are pre-spawn before the fish turns dark. The fish in the picture was not dark for a catch in freshwater The catch and release issue is one that is a decision for the individual fisherman to make and will be argued between fisherman forever. I personally don't have a problem keeping female salmon in watersheds where there are sustainable numbers of fish. I never keep wild Steelhead females, but those are just my values based on 70 years of fishing for them.

FixorFish Loc: SW Oregon

👍👍.....great apropos post.

OregonBob Loc: Oregon

don't let dimwits bother you; I've smoked many dark fish and they were great eating