Fishing with Rod Discussion Forum
Fishing in British Columbia => General Discussion => Topic started by: troutbreath on November 10, 2006, 08:05:32 PM
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Friend left the bar and went for a walk on the beach, saw this. Now I know where the Coho went.
(http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a391/troutbreath/deadfish1.jpg)
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I would like to see a bigger picture before I make any comments, from that little pic they could be anything.
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Same but if that is the coho, were screwed, no coho now!
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I suppose some would still be good to pick off the beach tomorrow? ::)
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hey don't get that desperate! We all haven't done quite well like usuall! Big steel, caugh caugh! ;D
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wow that's sad.
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Probably do the Seagull thing, and bring a buggy to take some home tomorrow. Heck they'll smoke up just fine. :-* I have an old English pheasent recipe that say's you let the bird "age" 14 days with the guts in it. It's cold out and those Ho's will be toot suite. 8)
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Man thats sick. :-\ You would actually pick up dead salmon for consumption, I really wouldnt enjoy sloppy seconds after the seaguls buffey. :)
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I've near heard of cohos being washed up after a storm. Sure it's cohos ?
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why is the picture so small?? could be anything in that pic maybe just rocks show us a bigger pic
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thats not the beach, thats my freezer after teh last couple of days on the Cap! ;)
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Salmon all die-what's the big deal?
Never seen dead fish? ::)
Out Sturgeon fishing on the Fraser we see that many dead Salmon wash downstream in a couple hours-all floaters so think how many must be rolling along the bottom.
It's nothing to see Chums half buried after a storm if they are Coho it's no different.
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:'( why are all those fish dead?
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if somebody could enlarge the picture we could see what kind of salmon they are .
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It would be interesting to know how these fish died. It's a shame if they are Coho (because there seems to be fewer this year) but any Salmon kill not good.
There could be many reasons for all those dead fish.
1) They may have already spawned and got washed up on that beach with all the high water.
2) These may of been netted fish that got washed out of the nets with the high water. We have seen this many times over the years.
3) There is a possibility that industrial pollution may have killed this group of fish. That has happened more than once on the Fraser. Especially on the heavily industrialized areas like New West, Surrey, Delta or Richmond. It takes only one localized accident or spill to cause this kind of damage.
3) Or like SS said, just a bunch of dead salmon that happened to get washed up on the same beach.
It would be nice to have an actual answer.
TB, did your friend report this to anybody? If so can you keep us updated?
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Red herring, old boy. Merely sending the worst of lurkers on wild goose (or dead Coho ) chase.
If there was that many dead coho on a beach in Richmond the press would be all over it. That's an ocean beach and pollution or some other catastrophe would have wiped them out.
As an old Cramps song said: "don't eat the gum off the sidewalk"