Fobbman

"Jacks" are immature males that never will develop to an adult salmon. Not all jacks are males, once in a great while you will get a young female that is undersized and will be considered a "jack". Jacks attempt to spawn with female adults but don't add much to the gene pool. Large returning numbers of jacks usually indicate to the fishery managers that there will be large returning runs of adults the following year, but not always does that happen. Fish managers use these same numbers when they run their programs along with other factors to determine the run size each year. Hope this helps you understand what happens to a salmon jack when he returns. The best thing that jacks are good for is to end up in somebody frying pan! Neither chinook or coho Jacks ever return to sea once they inter fresh water, they always die. So why not eat them?

Cowlitzfisherman,

Is the taste of the bait worth the sting of the hook????


[ 06-24-2001: Message edited by: cowlitzfisherman ]