Couple other features that seal the deal as chum...

1) Sockeye have no dark markings in the mouth or gumline. The mouth is white or perhaps a faint washed out gray. Look carefully at the fine linear black marks on both the upper and lower gumlines. (Yeah, I know, I should have taken a better open mouth close-up.)

2) And finally as others have already noted is how they cut. Sockeye have the most vibrant candy red flesh you'll ever see on a salmon. This fish clearly did not.



_________________________
"Let every angler who loves to fish think what it would mean to him to find the fish were gone." (Zane Grey)

"If you don't kill them, they will spawn." (Carcassman)


The Keen Eye MD
Long Live the Kings!