Posted on 11/05/2008 10:10:58 PM PST by fishhound
Oh yeah, that's a big one.
Wildlife officials in northern California last week came across one of the biggest Chinook salmon ever found in the state a monster more than 4 feet long and weighing 85 pounds.
"We see lots of big ones," Doug Killam, a biologist in the California Department of Fish and Game's Red Bluff office, told the Redding Record Searchlight, "but this one was just bigger than most big ones it was just spectacular."
The big fish had recently spawned and died, Killam said, and probably weighed about 90 pounds when it began its 100-mile swim upstream from the Pacific to the spot where it died on Battle Creek, a tributary of the Sacramento River near the town of Anderson.
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Salmon-zilla?
(Pro’ly Bush’s fault.)
eh
I’ve seen bigger.
In Alasaka,we call that
bait.
haha..I’m sure.
Cat fish can get super big too.
This reminds me of “Food Of The Gods”. I went and saw that along with “Willard”.
cool enough, but “Flowers For Algernon”, “Lathe of Heaven”, and both versions of “Lord of the Flies” were way better.
Nope. 0bama’s fault now.
Oh my. It is a good thing they taste better than they look.
Wow!
and more capers and cream chez :-)!
yitbos
That one probably wouldn't taste very good. It had already spawned and died - just off I5 south of Redding. Besides, in California if it didn't have its fin snipped at the hatchery you could get fined for having a "wild" salmon in your possession. I'm afraid that the sport fisherman is an endangered species here.
No matter how much I enjoy it, the thought of paying with my life for the pleasure of a little hot action would put me off carnal contact for good.
Smart salmon are the ones that embrace celibacy.
Yeah, so you couldn’t eat that already dead salmon?
That’s nothing.... Some of the live bait I used is larger than that one.
That is one monster
Back in the late 1950’s & early 60’s, I froze my buns & toes off salmon casting at the mouth of Battle Creek. Lots of fish back then, but none ever on my line.
Got plenty of silvers out of the Trinity River too, before they built Trinity Dam & Lewiston Dam.
Steelhead below Keswick Dam on the Sacremento. That was an after school bicycle ride away from home, carrying my rod & tackle.
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