Bob -

Guess I owe Curtis an apology.

While it is always dangerous to attempt to id a salmon/steelhead from photos the picture the fish in the picture sure looks like a chum (a very bright one)to me. The white tip of the anal fin is diagostic for adult chum salmon. I know that it is pretty rare to see many chum in that system much less one that bright however unless the white fin tip is somehting on the phot and not onthe fish it says chum. Have you ever seen an adult coho with that white fin tip before or since? I have not. The only salmon that I have seen with that marking has been chum - in fact don't recall ever seeing a river chum that didn't have that white anal fin tip.

As I mentioned really off topic and sorry for hijacking. Just those odd appearing or unusual fish always strike me as interesting.



Tight lines
Curt