Land locked chinook salmon

[TTFishon]

I went fishing friday at a local reservoir and caught five landlocked chinook salmon while bank fishing with a Thomas. They were all small. The biggest was only about ten inches.
Are landlocked chinook salmon's life cycles the same as kokanee?
If I go back in a couple of months will they be much bigger?
How big do they get before they spawn?

[joemomma]

I went fishing friday at a local reservoir and caught five landlocked chinook salmon while bank fishing with a Thomas. They were all small. The biggest was only about ten inches.
Are landlocked chinook salmon's life cycles the same as kokanee?
If I go back in a couple of months will they be much bigger?
How big do they get before they spawn?

I think so

They will grow a couple of inches

My #2 boy got a nice one, a couple of years ago


http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h252/joemomma47/Gp5-19-07004.jpg


If ya got them at GP, they taste bad! Some think they are fine!

[stupenny5]

I have never found a lake fish that tasted bad when smoked :D

[Bandy76]

When having trouble with taste from lake fish, make sure you SKIN them taking ALL the dark (FAT) from under their hide.
I do not believe they tase bad this time of year, most of the time is when the algee is in bloom.
:twocents:

[joemomma]

It's just the way they are, the meat is white, that big one there was just a little pink! Trust me I know how to cook fish, these chinook out of GP are worse than planter trout, my :twocents: I would be interested to see what they are like out of Detroit?

[TTFishon]

I caught them out of Cougar reservoir.

[soulrider]

I have never found a lake fish that tasted bad when smoked :D
Oh yeah!! or candy them by using a sugary brine........nice little treat from time to time.

[Dan Grbavac]

Does any one know what happened to the Chinook the ODFW planted in
LBC back in the 70's to control the Kokanee?

[Don Fischer]

:whistle:The kokanee ate them! :whistle:

[OutdoorBum]

Only landlocked I caught were last year when I was trolling a crankbait in a reservoir I hadn't fished but maybe one other time. Hooked up on 2 that were a little bigger than the one pictured. The meat was almost a ruby color and was excellent eating.

[newbergfishjunkie]

My wife caught a 17 " chinook out of detriot 3 years ago in January and to date I've never had a better tasting lake fish. The meat looked like sockeye and for along time I thought it was a kokenee until I showed a picture to a fish and game official and he pointed out the black mouth. He said definetly a chinook. If some could tell how to load pictures on this site I'll post it.

[Salmonslayer2]

The chinook in Green Peter this year have orange meat and were ok smoked. They are not white like last year.
Larry

[SouthSantiamSlayer]

Question...
Are people getting these fish the same depth and method as Kokanee??
I fish GP alot and never have caught one...
Well over 8in. anyways.
I seen a few native steelhead jumping in Foster last time i was there.
ODFW takes the Nates that are in the trap above the dam.

[Doc_Rhen]

I went fishing friday at a local reservoir and caught five landlocked chinook salmon while bank fishing with a Thomas. They were all small. The biggest was only about ten inches.
Are landlocked chinook salmon's life cycles the same as kokanee?
If I go back in a couple of months will they be much bigger?
How big do they get before they spawn?

To answer the growth question, yes they will grow at a tremendous rate if they have decent conditions, all species of salmon seem to have a really interesting ability to grow overnight.

[Rod Meyer]

I think so

They will grow a couple of inches

My #2 boy got a nice one, a couple of years ago


http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h252/joemomma47/Gp5-19-07004.jpg


If ya got them at GP, they taste bad! Some think they are fine!


Thats a nice looking fish!
Your boy sure looks familiar, does he go to Sandy? Or GSCC

[joemomma]

No, he goes to Silverton high