Well this is interesting and totally irrelevant which is nice in fish stuff.


http://www.foxnews.com/science/2016/11/0...like-teeth.html

Obviously of hatchery origin.

sounds like a gamefishin report.

I think they dug one of those up somewhere in the Skokomish Valley a few years ago, too.

(seriously)

Fish on...

Todd

Oncorhynchus WHOLLYFUCKINGSHITTHATSALMONISHUGE

If it were alive today, I'd land it on a spey rod on my first cast......

How would you do that fishing with your snoopy rod?

We'd probably have to allow 30lb. braid.....

Thought it was returning to the outfall at Hanford....

Article states most Pacific Salmon are Plankton feeders. Not true! Average food sources in adult Pacific Salmon are prey larger than plankton, with the exception being Sockeye (and maybe Pinks) that feed mainly on krill (large zooplankton)!
Likely fed on anything it could wrap its lips (and teeth) around to get that big!

Wm Spear, up in Juneau, makes a beautiful lapel pin of this guy.

As to salmon feeding on plankton, it is actually true if you consider sheer numbers. Pinks and sockeye vastly outnumber Chinook and coho-the primary piscivores.

the new hatchery at Fukushima should make quite a few of those

But the AK trollers will get them while they are still in the 20-30 pound range, at best.

400 lb. toothy chums would keep me from wading.

And gill nets would deplete anything in the gene pool that wouldn't fit through 4 inch mesh.

Within a few generations, average size = 11#

I caught one of those at Sekiu this past August. It had an extra fin so I cut her loose, Damn camera phone battery was dead so no pics.