Hatchery Coho tag

[skybuster]

I just returned from a business trip and found a nice suprise in the mailbox today.

Last July I went salmon fishing out of Garibaldi with a friend and my girlfriend. Upon returning with our limits the fish checker announced that he was going to keep the snout off of one of my fish. I was offered a postcard to fill out that they would send back to me when they identified the fish.

I got the card back in the mail today and found out that the fish was a 3 year old silver from the Grays River Hatchery in Washington. The fish was released with 30,000 other smolt on 5/15/2002.

It's pretty cool to find out where the fish came from and where they are going. Has anyone else filled out one of these cards, and what were the results?

[Dipnet]

The first springer I ever caught had a chip in it's snout. I caught it in April a couple of years ago on SS beach on Sauvie Island. It had been released from a hatchery in Madras. It is interesting to find out where it came from and where it was headed!!

Dipnet :grin:

[willierower]

I just got a card back too.

On 8-803 I landed a hatchery chinnok out of Newport. Stick Flicker took the snout.

Heres what the card says.

Chinook

4 years old

Lyons Ferry Hatchery

Realsed on the Lower Snake River

It was one of 338,757 released.

It was released on 4/24/2001

Brood year was 1999

Pretty neat info.

[Born to be Wild]

Pretty cool stuff! [img]graemlins/applause.gif[/img]

Dano

[Hawg Caller]

I got my card back yesterday,caught out of newport,here it is:coho, 3yrs. cedc youngs river&bay,#released 187,678, release date 5/3/02, brood yr.2000. it seems weird that it was released in 02, caught in 03, it was a nice 8lb.er it must have been eating good.

[Miss B Haven]

From my post on the Salty Dogs:

I got checked on the dock (Warrenton) after a trip outside last July (20th) and had 2 hatchery ho's with implant tags. I filled out the cards and just got the results back this week.

Fish #1:
3 yrs old
Forks Creek Hatchery, released in Forks Creek (WA Coast)
# released 12,575
released 5/9/2000

Fish #2:
3 yrs old
Inch Creek Hatchery, released in Inch Creek River, BC
# released 414,485 (wow! :shocked: )
released 5/15/2000

And I thought these were mostly CR basin fish?

[Miss B Haven]

From my post on the Salty Dogs:

I got checked on the dock (Warrenton) after a trip outside last July (20th) and had 2 hatchery ho's with implant tags. I filled out the cards and just got the results back this week.

Fish #1:
3 yrs old
Forks Creek Hatchery, released in Forks Creek (WA Coast)
# released 12,575
released 5/9/2000

Fish #2:
3 yrs old
Inch Creek Hatchery, released in Inch Creek River, BC
# released 414,485 (wow! :shocked: )
released 5/15/2000

And I thought these were mostly CR basin fish?

[Miss B Haven]

From my post on the Salty Dogs:

I got checked on the dock (Warrenton) after a trip outside last July (20th) and had 2 hatchery ho's with implant tags. I filled out the cards and just got the results back this week.

Fish #1:
3 yrs old
Forks Creek Hatchery, released in Forks Creek (WA Coast)
# released 12,575
released 5/9/2000

Fish #2:
3 yrs old
Inch Creek Hatchery, released in Inch Creek River, BC
# released 414,485 (wow! :shocked: )
released 5/15/2000

And I thought these were mostly CR basin fish?

[little hunter]

yea i got one of thoes too and it was somare from washington too

[little hunter]

yea i got one of thoes too and it was somare from washington too [img]graemlins/lurk.gif[/img]

[KingFisher85]

That's pretty cool! I still have not gotten any of mine back but oh well...guess I'm not cool enough to be checked :grin:

I see we have lots of double posting?

[blacktail519]

British Columbia HUH? Thats interesting. Really interesting. I knew they caught alot of our fish, And i am glad to hear we get a few of theres as well :grin: . Thanks for the info. :smile: