Summer Kings??

[Jim]

Just looked at the Dam passage it states that 66,000 summer Kings have now gone over Bonneville...what are these fish?? A seperate run? Late Springs? Early Falls? Does anybody know?? Where are they headed? Sheesh...lots of questions eh?

Thanks,

Jim images/icons/grin.gif

[HOGTIDE]

Same question from me. Chinooks are being caught in our summer steelhead hoglines each day. Late springers? Early Falls? Thought the true "summer" chinook were gone!? images/icons/confused.gif

[Fish Hunter]

Fishing the Columbia down stream of the Lewis, I've released two chinook in the last 3 weeks that were mint bright, lice carrying and finclipped. Is there a hatchery summer chinook run anywhere? Would be news to me.
Must be early URBs ?????

[Firedog]

On june 1 the counts change from springers to summers just the way they count. I would say that these fish are a mix of upriver brights with a few late springers mixed in. Could be a bit of a return of the ole "June Hogs" I know a couple guys who have turned loose a couple of 45lb + fish. 9 more days and then we can keep them images/icons/smile.gif images/icons/smile.gif

[ 07-23-2001: Message edited by: firedog ]

[urb]

From what I understand those fish are summer run salmon and their numbers are on the raise It would be very doubtful that my namesake fish is showing up already

[fish_on]

These fish are headed to Idaho. They are raised in a hatchery in McCall released into the salmon. They are having a record run this year and have more fish than they know what to do with. They are not expecting such a great run next year