Green Peter today

FishTy · 05-05-2007, 06:59 PM

We didn't catch much fish .But my wife Caught this Nice Chinook About 27" inches 3.5 pounds! she out fished me today thats for sure!!!!
she caught it on, of all things a BLUE wedding ring ( that she insisted I make for her, when making my white ones!

Chris61182 · 05-05-2007, 07:16 PM

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Originally Posted by FishTy

WOW!!!

That is one awesome fish, I'm jealous!

Splash · 05-06-2007, 02:17 AM

That is a dandy fish.

Like they say on the CR fishing for fall nooks... "Any color will work as long as it's blue."

joemomma · 05-06-2007, 04:47 PM

Holy cow, thats a Beaut! Tell her nice job!

willierower · 05-06-2007, 05:44 PM

Nice! I need to get up there soon.

What depth were you finding the fish at? Are they at the 35 to 45' depth yet?

Here is a tip on the kokes up there. By some bubble gum pink zipper worms, the small segmented ones and use about 3/8 of an inch of one and thread it up the hook on a wedding ring. I started doing that a couple years ago. They bite the pink wormed hooks more than the bare ones. You still need white corn .

FishTy · 05-06-2007, 07:40 PM

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Originally Posted by willierower

Nice! I need to get up there soon.

What depth were you finding the fish at? Are they at the 35 to 45' depth yet?

Here is a tip on the kokes up there. By some bubble gum pink zipper worms, the small segmented ones and use about 3/8 of an inch of one and thread it up the hook on a wedding ring. I started doing that a couple years ago. They bite the pink wormed hooks more than the bare ones. You still need white corn .

It was a slow day!!! that is the only fish we kept! she was fishing about 35 feet deep.. but the kokes are spread out all over the place,, deep!

willierower · 05-06-2007, 09:04 PM

The fishing should be improving. Lets hope its not a bust like it was for me last year.

insanefishinguy88 · 05-06-2007, 10:39 PM

WOW!!Thats is bigger then my first and only chinook(it was a jack)Way to

emm.

kokaneefisher · 05-10-2007, 05:01 PM

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Originally Posted by FishTy

It was a slow day!!! that is the only fish we kept! she was fishing about 35 feet deep.. but the kokes are spread out all over the place,, deep!

You'll have to post how it tasted. I heard the chinook out of GP tasted like mud, and some couldn't even smoke it out.

FishTy · 05-10-2007, 06:56 PM

I filleted it it was pink like a chinook form the ocean! but haven't tried to eat it! its vacume packed in the freezer...

Will cook it soon

stupenny5 · 05-10-2007, 07:58 PM

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You'll have to post how it tasted. I heard the chinook out of GP tasted like mud, and some couldn't even smoke it out.

That was funny. On another report a guy said the meat was white.
I guess some one wants to give bad info. Fish taste great at GP.

stupenny5 · 05-10-2007, 07:59 PM

Sorry forgot nice fish.:smile:

FishTy · 05-10-2007, 08:04 PM

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Originally Posted by stupenny5

That was funny. On another report a guy said the meat was white.
I guess some one wants to give bad info. Fish taste great at GP.

I don't know how it's going to taste YET! But it looked like a springer, hope it taste like it......

GFISH1 · 05-11-2007, 07:31 AM

I caught a chinook also at Green Peter the week before last and the meat was very white, so maybe there are ones that are pink, others not...we BBQ'd it and it tasted allright...but it didn't taste like a salmon to me.

moknots · 05-11-2007, 08:16 AM

Chinook flesh can be anywhere from light beige (white-ish) to deep red/orange. Not sure if its diet or genetics, or both. I have caught lots of mature chinook from the saltwater that had very light flesh. In Southeast Alaska they just call them white kings.

Kokanee, even from the same school, can vary greatly in flesh color too. Recent batches of kokes from Odell, Suttle and Wickiup all showed quite a bit of variation.

FishnMike · 05-11-2007, 09:15 AM

Nice fish!

FIshnMike

kokaneefisher · 05-12-2007, 04:51 PM

The people I talked to said that it may be the algae. I haven't tasted one myself so I don't know, but if they taste like a springer I'm in.

jzell · 05-12-2007, 05:12 PM

Bottom line, FishTY, you and your wife came home with a VERY NICE fish. Congrats. Had to be a fun fight and great feeling once you had it in the net.

You can probably say you have the Chinook of year, so far, from GP.

Absolutely beautiful coloration.

John

Salty1 · 05-13-2007, 01:25 AM

Stupenny,

We fish GP several times a year. While targeting other species there, we very often still enjoy good catches of incidental bows, and I assure you there is a VERY wide diversity in both color and quality of the flesh. It's our contention the hold-overs may not get the nutrients needed which in turn reflects as lighter colored and reduced firmness in muscle.

Also mentioned was the white fleshed Chinook of Alaska, and a commercial I know confirmed them saying they may well have been (in his 40 year commercial opinion) squid feeders, and that those with this habit tend to display the white flesh which (fact)) significantly lowered value to marketing. Iodine(possibly from Shrimp in the food chain) could be a factor as it's presence in higher concentrations results in displays of darker red in the fish. That's My

.... I do dearly enjoy those Kokes!