a good friend sayed he recieved something called blue back salmon fillets. the person explained that it is a very small run of fish that tribal streams. the guy works with a particular tribe (not sur which) and aquired these fillets. Never heard of such a thing.

Down here the term blue backs is reserved for sea run cutthrought trought.

Just curious

Sockeye.

Lake Quinault sockeye, specifically, are locally known as blueback salmon.

Sg

A handful of the "locals" will call anything a blueback. I have seen people call a limit of red Silvers out of the Hump. bluebacks... Salmo is correct....

Thats a increasingly rare animal now, wouldn't be from the netting though!!!

Tasty!!

Mike

Quinault sockeye.

Quite a few coming in so far compared to the past few years.

I believe blue back is used as a term for Coho in parts of Canada

I've heard it used for coho. I'm pretty close to Canadia...

You are correct. Isn't it fun with fish names?. I know of at least three red snappers and none are on women.

They call Coho Bluebacks over here in the east side of the mountains also. At least the Colvilles do. What I grew up calling them seeing I love across from the Coville Reservation.

Silvers where to me at that time kokanee.

Now that Ive caught a few REAL silvers a coho is most definatly a silver to me.

Silvers or silver trout as I've also heard them called=kokane but kokane are sockeye (freshwater version) but sockeye aren't coho. This could really confuse a guy. Bluebacks is a name I've heard quinaults call sockeye also!

Grays Harbor folks also refer to sea-run cutts as "bluebacks".

As far as the tribal colloquialism goes, as others have said, they're referring to Quinault River sockeye.

I think the non-descript names are kinda stupid.

It's a lot like calling Orientals that ridiculous politically correct non-descript label "Asian".

Technically speaking, Asian includes Russians and the neighboring former Soviet -stans; Arabs/Middle Eastern folks, and their neighboring Muslim -stans, Hindus/Indians, Mongols/Tibetans/Siberians, your various Orientals - Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Thai, Vietnamese, Cambodian,Laotian, Filipino. JFC! may as well just call us all bluebacks!

Ah hell... that's the just the redneck Oriental Grays Harbor hick in me talkin'... never mind.

Go to bed Blueback

If they are really Quinault sockeye filets, you have a real treat there... good eats.

Enjoy

Yep Yep Sockeye!

having grown up on the harbor, i must concur that the sea run cutties were always referred to as bluebacks, and boy do i sure miss putting a hurtin on them on a few tiny coastal zippers(yes, they do exist)...but just today during a large family easter bbq down on the lake(offut) catching dozens of cookie cutter rainbows(and one nice 4lb largemouth), my wife's uncle from idaho referred to the landlocked sockeye of dworshack reservoir as blueback..said friends of his were catching 50-60 a day in recent weeks, mmmmm mmmmm!! tasty

I used to work with a Makah indian who brought some blue backs to a BBQ one time. He cooked them up on cedar stakes by an open fire. They came off the res. up there. Excellent eating fish. They looked to be about 5-6# fish.

I get to eat blueback (Quinault sockeye) cooked on the cedar stakes over a fire of small alder about 3 times a year. That is some of the best tasting fish ever.

Lots of fish are called bluebacks, I think there was a thread about this a while back.

Blueback = Quinault sockeye......1968-69, went for a drive around the lake, EVERY feeder stream was loaded with sockeye of all sizes, thousands of them.......haven't been back during the spawning run, since that time but with the netting they do in the Chehalis River, if the QIN allows the same netting schedule on the rivers within tribal lands.....got to believe the sockeye run is about gone.......sure would be nice if QIN would go to selective netting!!!!!

Sockeye.Good luck,
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