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.
Yeah, so you couldn’t eat that already dead salmon?
Well, I am pretty sure that I would have a hard time getting passed the smell of a fish that had just spawned. :)
It was (probably still is) the same in Oregon.
Dirty little secret got out there several years ago:
The hatchery was only fin-clipping a certain set percentage of the fish, thus creating "wild" fish as far as catching them was concerned, even though they were in reality hatchery raised.