First Chinook of the Season

May 18th – 25th

 

During our most recent time off we had some fun salmon fishing.  We had a few beautiful days out on the water, and we saw our first two whales of the year.  They were feeding their way along the rocky shoreline where we were trolling, and it is always breathtaking to watch them bubble feed and come up with their massive mouths scooping up fish.  

I caught my first Chinook salmon, and our first one of the year.  It was a lot of fun to reel in, as Chinook are fast and active fighters.  It was 29.75” long, 13lbs, with white meat. 


It is interesting that Chinook salmon can have pink-red, marble coloured, or white meat, and it all has to do with their genetic ability to metabolize the natural colour in some of their food.  This was our first white salmon, last year we got one red and one marbled one.  It looked funny on the dinner plate; if one had not known what fish they were being served they might easily have guessed that it was a Lingcod, and they would not have guessed Salmon until they tasted it.  It was delicious! 

On another day, Jason caught a beautiful 36”, 20 - 25lb Chinook that put up a great fight.  He also had another nice one on the line that got away, and he got another smaller one that we kept because it was bleeding quite badly.   We baked it whole for dinner. 


This small Gunnel fish came up on one of the crab traps that we pulled up at the end of our time off.  It looks big, but it is only about 5 inches long.

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