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Gigantic Salmon Found in California River
Fox ^ | Wednesday, November 05, 2008 | n/a

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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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; US: California
KEYWORDS: fishing; salmon
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Monster Fish
1 posted on 11/05/2008 10:10:59 PM PST by fishhound
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To: girlangler

ping


2 posted on 11/05/2008 10:11:21 PM PST by fishhound (Church, guns, a fishing rod and a hat light.)
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To: fishhound

Salmon-zilla?

(Pro’ly Bush’s fault.)


3 posted on 11/05/2008 10:12:23 PM PST by Redcloak (Stocking up on ammo and Advil...)
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To: fishhound

eh
I’ve seen bigger.


4 posted on 11/05/2008 10:13:02 PM PST by snarkytart
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To: snarkytart

In Alasaka,we call that

bait.


5 posted on 11/05/2008 10:15:05 PM PST by ASOC (Have a nice day, just don't have it around me (bumper sticker))
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To: ASOC

haha..I’m sure.


6 posted on 11/05/2008 10:16:13 PM PST by snarkytart
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To: fishhound

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.


7 posted on 11/05/2008 10:16:23 PM PST by ChetNavVet (Build It, and they won't come!)
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To: Redcloak

Nope. 0bama’s fault now.


8 posted on 11/05/2008 10:18:05 PM PST by TenthAmendmentChampion (Don't blame me, I voted for John McCain and Sarah Palin. Well, for Sarah Palin, anyway.)
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To: fishhound
Mmmmmmm, grilled Salmon.
9 posted on 11/05/2008 10:27:38 PM PST by ladyvet (WOLVERINES!!!!!)
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To: fishhound

Oh my. It is a good thing they taste better than they look.


11 posted on 11/05/2008 10:50:01 PM PST by bizeemommie
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To: fishhound

Wow!


12 posted on 11/05/2008 10:56:58 PM PST by GOP Poet
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To: Yehuda

and more capers and cream chez :-)!


13 posted on 11/05/2008 10:58:26 PM PST by GOP Poet
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To: ladyvet
One of the enviro whachos favorite tricks was to take pictures of dead and dying salmon and then claim the rivers are dying from pollution.

yitbos

14 posted on 11/05/2008 10:59:09 PM PST by bruinbirdman ("Those who control language control minds.")
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To: bizeemommie
It is a good thing they taste better than they look.

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.

16 posted on 11/05/2008 11:09:53 PM PST by InABunkerUnderSF (Illegal Immigration is not about the immigration. Gun control is not about the guns.)
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To: fishhound

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.


17 posted on 11/05/2008 11:10:01 PM PST by Kiss Me Hardy
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To: InABunkerUnderSF

Yeah, so you couldn’t eat that already dead salmon?


18 posted on 11/06/2008 12:19:14 AM PST by IreneE (Live for nothing or die for something.)
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To: snarkytart

That’s nothing.... Some of the live bait I used is larger than that one.


19 posted on 11/06/2008 12:34:54 AM PST by JSteff ( It was ALL about SCOTUS, Many forget about that and may have doomed us for a generation.)
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To: fishhound

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.


20 posted on 11/06/2008 12:36:07 AM PST by ApplegateRanch (The Great Obamanation of Desolation, attempting to sit in the Oval Office, where he ought not..)
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