The Fishing Thread

Fairly shitty year up here for Sockeye and Coho also. Pinks the disgusting little bastards are huge this year and returned thick. Next time you make it up here give me PM and I will take you out.

BrutulTM said:

I went up to alaska a week and a half a go and spent 3 days fishing. Went out on a boat for halibut and didn't catch any big ones but we limited out on little guys. After that we spent 2 days fishing for salmon in the Kenai river afterwards and although it was way too crowded I had never caught a salmon before and those things are a hell of a lot of fun to catch on a fly rod. My first time in AK but it won't be my last. It's kind of weird being up there in July when it doesn't get dark until after midnight. We fished until like 11:30 PM the last day and it certainly didn't feel that late.

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Adebisi said:

What's everyone's thoughts on tent trailers? (popup trailers)

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Had one for a while. It was "OK". If you live where it gets cold I would it would pretty much suck. Even in the south during hunting season it got really cold and would "flap" in the wind. Sold it when I built my first tear drop which was much warmer and quieter. I think if you look around you can get a pretty good deal on one tho. A lot of people buy them and get rid of them with almost no use on them.

BrutulTM said:

I went up to alaska a week and a half a go and spent 3 days fishing. Went out on a boat for halibut and didn't catch any big ones but we limited out on little guys. After that we spent 2 days fishing for salmon in the Kenai river afterwards and although it was way too crowded I had never caught a salmon before and those things are a hell of a lot of fun to catch on a fly rod. My first time in AK but it won't be my last. It's kind of weird being up there in July when it doesn't get dark until after midnight. We fished until like 11:30 PM the last day and it certainly didn't feel that late.

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The Kenai is fun if the fish are running right. Stayed the summer in Soldatna once and fished it a lot, that and the Russian river. I got a kick out of watching the Asians fish. Apparently game and fish laws are a foreign concept to them. You would be fishing and a plain clothes game warden would get one at least once a day. Saw an Asian woman fishing with a spincaster reel and she had it turned upside down turning it backwards lol. Crazy stuff. Caught one halibut and I think it weighed 30 punds or something, but a guy my uncle knew took us out. Picked up crabs on a minus tide down around homer one day and dug clams another. Had a lot of fun. Watching other people was almost as fun as fishing there. See guys catch 3 or 6 fish whichever was the limit that day and then walk out to the truck and come back with a different color raincoat on an hour later.

We canned most of it and made squaw candy out of the rest. I took a case home in a suitcase and my uncle drove back with everything he had canned all summer.

I'll try to scan some pics.

Yeah it's pretty crowded in places. Luckily a friend of my uncle worked for the AK Fish and Game and owned a pipe cub, so we flew out a few times and fished on the other side of the Cook inlet, nobody around.

I typically don't fish the Kenai Peninsula because of the crowds, though the fall brings some world class trout fishing on the Kenai river after the tourist leave and the trout is fat on Salmon eggs and flesh. My fresh water Salmon fishing is done in the Mat-Su valley near were I live.

fishing on lake michigan - lovely time, caught some decent fish. a 20 pound chinook was the largest, but we caught coho, lake trout and steelhead. my five year old had a blast landing 2 fish on his own. smoked a lake trout for 5 hours with brown sugar, turned out pretty nice.

I am going to try to get a few more Coho Salmon in the freezer before I stop fishing for the year tomorrow if I can keep the Pinks away.

splorge said:

fishing on lake michigan - lovely time, caught some decent fish. a 20 pound chinook was the largest, but we caught coho, lake trout and steelhead. my five year old had a blast landing 2 fish on his own. smoked a lake trout for 5 hours with brown sugar, turned out pretty nice.




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Does the meat in those Great Lakes Pacific Salmon get as dark and oily as they do in their native range?

spanner said:

Does the meat in those Great Lakes Pacific Salmon get as dark and oily as they do in their native range?

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The coho salmon are a deep orange color, but the chinook have a lighter orange similar to what you would find in supermarket. Both are much leaner meat than the farmed salmon, lacking those streaks of fat. Most would say the lake trout are the oilest of the bunch (i would agree), but they really arent that bad compared to other members of the salmon family.

I prefer Sockeye personally above all salmon, Coho are running right now, I need to go out and wade through the Pinks and put a few in freezer for winter.

smoked lake trout. This stuff is really tasty!

Used to fish all the time in the rain at land between the lakes Kentucky and Tennessee boarder