blue back salmon??????

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,
STRIKE ZONE

There used to be a springtime fishery in Georgia strait for immature coho's. These 12"-18" little guys were called bluebacks here in B.C. This fishery dissapeared in the mid 1980's when whatever was left of the little guys went out to the west coast of Van.isle instead of living their short lives in the inside waters.

I always thought a blueback was a Canadian Illegal Alien living in the US.

You would Parker, you would. (roll eyes)

I could be mistaking a blueback for a Kokanee.

You could. You're on a roll today. You're just full of sass cuz you caught a springer Thursday!

Two springers. I caught TWO springers.

that must be a first this year parker catching to fish the same day

Limit's one Parker. Presume the first was wild and released, eh?

Quinault blueback sockeye listed in the indian regs for the lake cannot be fished for or retained. good eats none the less. Available at their fish store in Tahola. okbye

Hey I just NOW noticed my new "title"

I've even got a blue shirt on my back to cover my red neck today!

Bluebacks, rednecks.... hell, we all look alike anyway, right?

Better than Blueballs......

I don't think the terms are mutually exclusive.

Blueback Salmon... fNp style:



Ain't no stinkin' Blue Balls on that baby!

Tease......

Hey... ever notice how the fish in my eyeFISH logo are also Blueback Salmon?

thanks guys, just wondering............again the only time I hear that term it has to do with sea run cutty's

Plastic fish don't count

I used to fish the streams around Willipa Bay and those guys called Sea-Runs "Bluebacks" as well.

Parker...don't flatter yourself. As I stated when you "supposedly" lost your skunk with bob: "If you lose the skunk with Bob, steelheading around forks, it DOESN'T count." Well, springer fishing with Keith is pretty much the same. It doesn't count when you go with someone that good. You were just taking a position in the boat (btw when do I get to take one of those positions ).

So, technically, you are still skunked for springers!

lol

CM

So, what you are telling me is that I have to fish with *you* to get this skunk streak off of me?



Assume the position, Scott. Assume the position.

Yeah, I was gonna' say, 'tain't likely. Talk about a guy using a crutch to fish.

Oh, I think I just ZINGED Parker! Wonder what that's gonna' cost me.

whatever you do....do not go bareback on a blue back!

growing up in grays harbor, I use to here blueback alot in most of the coastal streams and they were sockeye strays all over the place especially when the quinalts had huge runs. I have never herd of a cutt called a blueback, there back is pretty green for the most part. Johns river use to have a pretty good blueback run in the late 60s to early 70s and then dissapeard I was just a little guy then. Dad and grandpa caught lots of them in the 60s on the east hoquiam. Only thing I caught in that river was bullheads and suckers....

Last time I did that this year, somebody *found* me! Not only did they find me, but they had to come share a tailout with me. Oh yeah, and once they ran out of shrimp tails for their tipped jig, guess who they came asking to see if I any bait they could have.

The best part was that I offered to tail his brat for him and he asked me "You sure you know what you're doing??"

I almost lost it at that point.

I hate fishing "alone".

You set yourself up for a lot more abuse than you get Parker. I for one wish to thank you, cuz entertainment is a quality of life issue. And you bring plenty of entertainment to the forum.

Sg

Blueback can be a sockeye on the Columbia or anywhere else... Kokanee also are known as bluebacks and likewise sea run cutts....

It is a slang name just like king, tyee, spring is to a chinook.

Welcome Ty! Glad to see you here!

Welcome Tyy

I found a picture of the "bluebacks". It was here all the time!!



Steve