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[flyguy44]

Hey Bug Pumper that has to be your lucky sweater eh    nice catch guys

[sassyboy]

Bigfisher,
check this link out.
bait is hooked as normal then held by bait loop

 http://www.steelheader.net/knots/bait_loop_tying.htm

[summersteel]

Heh, heh. Ya flyguy I guess thats my lucky sweater, as I 'm wearing it in almost every shot.

[bbronswyk2000]

What I cant believe is how dark those fish look already. The larger one looks worse than the smaller one. You smoking those fish?

[No_way]

What I cant believe is how dark those fish look already. The larger one looks worse than the smaller one. You smoking those fish?

I've eaten a spring that dark before, and it was fabulous.  They have to get pretty bad before the meat is unappetizing. 

I think we in BC are pretty spoiled and picky when it comes to our salmon; after all, we can afford to be!  I would eat those fish without hesitation.  Taste better than farmed fish at any rate.

[bbronswyk2000]

I agree No Way that any wild fish tastes better than farmed fish. I wont eat at a restaurant that serves that garbage. I tend to smoke those fish though and eat the nice chrome ones. I agree though we are pretty spoiled.

[Sterling C]

The vedder reds tend to turn color pretty fast. Last summer my buddie got one with sea lice and it was about the same color as BP's.

[bbronswyk2000]

So was that fish caught upper river or lower river?

[Gooey]

I think reds turn color quickly but flesh quality remains high.  Keep in mind my fish had be bonked for at least an hour and a half prior to that pic and the clouds were out so it wasnt as bright.

The belly of my fish was thick and fatty...PRIME shape.   One meal and several lunches made it ot th bar b que and was excellent, the rest is going in the smoker tonight.

[bbronswyk2000]

Gooey was it upper river or lower river. If you dont want to answer that just say you dont want to answer that. Why wasnt the fish on ice? Leaving it out for an hour is really not good. I keep a cooler in my truck at all times full with ice when salmon fishing. Once I bonk a fish its a quick picture than into the cooler it goes.

[HappyHooker]

Thanks for providing the link sassyboy

[Steelies-nitemare]

  Are ya getting all this......?   

[summersteel]

yeesh, now people are giving us advice on cooling the fish too!!  Yes Gooey and I usually bring a cooler but that day we were a bit lazy I guess.  As biffchan says, these fish are always an bit darker but the meat is still like that of a chromer.  Every year we take a few that are bright silver out of the Vedder or Chehalis, but for the most part they have that brown tinge to them.

[BigFisher]

Isnt the brown a tan from the sun were having? Where abouts did you gus hook them, the Upper or Lower?

[Rodney]

Isnt the brown a tan from the sun were having?

LMAO!

Where abouts did you gus hook them, the Upper or Lower?

I thought it was obvious that BP is not going to tell where they caught the fish.