Giant Salmon..Get your marlin tackle ready

Interesting story on genetic research on salmon.
http://www.tribnet.com/frame.asp?/news/top_stories/0821a12.html
Tight Lines

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Marty
Steelheader.net marty@steelheader.net

OK, so it's risky and we probably shouldn't and won't play around with such genetic engineering. But think about landing 'Nooks between 300 to 500 pounds!!! Wow! Yellowfin tuna that large are landed; but not in rivers. We'd have to buy $3,000 Loomis GL10's, line rated for 80 to 200 # test (line that cuts thru branches too). With marlin fishing reels. And lures? Got any ideas out there? A Spin N Glo the size of a softball, for rivers. Hey Jeff, how about a green hoochie the size of an octopus, with hubcap dodger? Bait? Plugcut shad on 12/0 hooks. For drifting eggs you'd better land a 350 pound hen for the 70 lbs. of eggs. Pro-Cure would like that scenario. K-95 Kwikfish the size of your boots, with whole sardines wrapped on. Barbless huge trebles so you can release the little 150 lb. jacks. And how about boats? Better have big ones with strong lights and flare guns, so when you hook one of these bright monsters with 5 lbs. of sealice on it and get towed from Pt. Defiance out to sea overnight, you might get found the next day. Hey, are we ready for that? Heck yes! - RT

how is a 500 lb. salmon gonna spawn in 18-24 inches of water? the freekin things water line is about 36"!!!! gonna have to hawg them rivers out a bit.

Hey Scooter, A good point the largest King salmon I ever saw was in the Sol Duc back in about 1975 just above the bark hole. We were watching two hens estimated weight low thirtys and a lone male that was solid 40 plus. Out on the edge of what we could see well was a shadowy object that one would not normaly associate with salmon as it was too large
The river had just risen about 18 inches and as often happens in the Sol duc on an early Fall freshet the water was tea colored and the fish were a little less spooky than what I would have considered "normal". WE were enjoying catching a few coho and we didn't even consider casting to the three kings as they were actively spawning and we really were enjoying watching such large and and beautiful creatures doing there thing.
Well after standing on the bank for about 5 minutes peacefully admireing our surroundings one of the Females started to dig on her redd again, and lo and behold the log looking object did a turn niner and came straight towards us. The other male gave way without much of a commotion and the big guy , easily twice as large, swam up next to the digging female. The result was that he was now almost completely exposed from the lateral line up, even his eyes were out of the water. This very large King salmon at that point launched himself to deeper water and took off upstream at a high rate of speed actually making a wake that the wave from it broke on both banks of the river.
You might wonder what the verbal exchange was aftrer an event like that it was the usual mundane "Did you see that" chanted in unison by the three folks standing side by side On the right bank of the Sol Duc over a quarter of a century ago and it seems like it just happened.
Thanks for reminding me!

Dem gilltutters need to get big a** nets!

couldn't bring up the link , can you redo the link or cut and past?,



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Charles

The news stories don't stay on the servers long. Rt copied it and posted it on his board at ifish.net


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Marty
Steelheader.net marty@steelheader.net