Saturday, July 30, 2011

Two more cohos and a rainbow (not trout)

I went down to the beach this afternoon to see if I could grab any more salmon. Turns out I ended up with two cohos (silvers - 銀鮭). Both fought hard. With the first one the line got caught in some large seaweed. It was also high tide with the water line into the rocks, so I couldn’t just slide the fish onto the beach. Just as I was trying to figure out how to land it, someone came by to dump some stuff into the water. He helped grab the fish. With the second one I had gotten it tired and weakened, but still couldn’t figure out how to land it on the rocks. As I began to work it into a nook, it jerked and snapped the line. I jumped into the water, slipping a bit, and getting wet from about thighs down. But the fish was too weak to go anywhere and I was able to grab it and bring it onto the rocks. Both were females and I got a large amount of roe as a bonus. All this makes up for losing a brand new lure today.

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Two cohos, on the rocks. Both about 26 inches long. Top one weighing in about 5.5 lbs., the bottom one about 6.0 lbs.

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Ready to be fileted. But I didn’t feel like doing the work at the time so I wrapped them whole and placed them in the refrigerator. Maybe tomorrow.

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Roe (筋子) curing in brine.

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When I went down to dump the fish guts into the water, I saw a nice rainbow. I ran back up to the house and ran back down with a camera, but the rainbow had already faded considerably. You can still see some here.

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It’s been cloudy and rainy all week, but the clouds broke for some sun today.

Thursday, July 28, 2011

A good run of salmon

After returning from Hawaii, I’ve been out fishing an hour or so each day. I’ve caught three pinks and one silver during the last three days. I heard that there were orcas in the waters today, feeding vigorously. I think I’ve already nearly equaled the salmon catch I had last year.

Here is a pink (カラフトマス) that I caught today – 22 inches, 3.5 pounds.

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Here is my first silver (銀鮭) of the year – 27 inches, 6.5 pounds.

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Here is the same silver, fileted and it was a female with roe so some ikura (イクラ).

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