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Facts on Chinook & King Salmon

The Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) is the largest species in the Pacific salmon genus Oncorhynchus. The common name refers to the Chinookan peoples. Other vernacular names for the species include king salmon, Quinnat salmon, spring salmon, and Tyee salmon. The scientific species name is based on the Russian common name chavycha (чавыча). Chinook and other Pacific salmon evolved from lake dwelling Salmo-like fish

I believe the Chinook / Kings were planted to reduce the Kokanee population in Anderson Ranch Reservoir. Weather they reproduce or not, likely the F&G will plant more as needed.

Happy Fishing everyone!101chromefish101
 
Nice copy & paste! Half the Chinook planted were sterile the other half have yet to reproduce or won't at all, this happens when salmon are kept in captivity (lakes). I encourage everyone to throw the Chinook back, you can no not rely on f & g to restock this species. It would be great if we had one lake in southern Idaho with the same Chinook fishery as CDA up north.

UOTE=gonefishing;59036]The Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) is the largest species in the Pacific salmon genus Oncorhynchus. The common name refers to the Chinookan peoples. Other vernacular names for the species include king salmon, Quinnat salmon, spring salmon, and Tyee salmon. The scientific species name is based on the Russian common name chavycha (чавыча). Chinook and other Pacific salmon evolved from lake dwelling Salmo-like fish

I believe the Chinook / Kings were planted to reduce the Kokanee population in Anderson Ranch Reservoir. Weather they reproduce or not, likely the F&G will plant more as needed.

Happy Fishing everyone!101chromefish101[/QUOTE]
 
NiteHawk said:
So Chinook salmon & king salmon are the exact same fish just two different terms. Ocean run Chinook and landlock Chinook are king salmon.

Also those are babies your harvesting there. Need to throw them back so they can get to 15 plus lbs like the ones I've been catching. Keep all the dang kokes you want. The Chinook fishery is so new in that lake its questionable whether or not they will reproduce. Last year 0 Chinook made it back to the weir.
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hard to release a dead fish, bro. not all get lip hooked. these were the 2 gill hookers out of 6 chinook we caught that day. They will not reproduce. They have done this before years ago. Those fish were stocked in 2014 for one purpose, to reduce the koke population. That is why there is no pre determined limit on them. You just count them as a trout limit. I have been fishing that water my whole life, and the chinook stocking works. This was not the first time they did it, and it wont be the last.
 
Interesting I've never heard of Chinook being gill hooked except on the river an I've caught thousands, usually about 200 a year between lakes rivers & ocean. So you've gill hooked 2??? They bite from the tail first an mouth it which is why they never get gill hooked while trolling, at least to the point they can't be released. Chinook are extremely strong fish, even if there bleeding when put back in cold water they will live. Chinook stocked in deadwood are re-producing (when f&g let's them) and CDA has landlocks reproducing, same breed stock at Anderson. Kokanee on the other hand will be stocked as needed there is NO shortage in Idaho & plenty of lakes full of them. Chinook need to be released at least for 2-3 more years. Its just advice from another angler. Fish & game does there part as sportsman we have the resposabilty and owe it to certain fisheries to do what's right. In Idaho we have wiped out the sockeye fishery & the Chinook fishery is not healthy by any means. I'm speaking ocean run of course on the sockeye but its an example of poor fisheries management.
QUOTE=terek;59038]hard to release a dead fish, bro. not all get lip hooked. these were the 2 gill hookers out of 6 chinook we caught that day. They will not reproduce. They have done this before years ago. Those fish were stocked in 2014 for one purpose, to reduce the koke population. That is why there is no pre determined limit on them. You just count them as a trout limit. I have been fishing that water my whole life, and the chinook stocking works. This was not the first time they did it, and it wont be the last.[/QUOTE]
 
NiteHawk said:
Interesting I've never heard of Chinook being gill hooked except on the river an I've caught thousands, usually about 200 a year between lakes rivers & ocean. So you've gill hooked 2??? They bite from the tail first an mouth it which is why they never get gill hooked while trolling, at least to the point they can't be released. Chinook are extremely strong fish, even if there bleeding when put back in cold water they will live. Chinook stocked in deadwood are re-producing (when f&g let's them) and CDA has landlocks reproducing, same breed stock at Anderson. Kokanee on the other hand will be stocked as needed there is NO shortage in Idaho & plenty of lakes full of them. Chinook need to be released at least for 2-3 more years. Its just advice from another angler. Fish & game does there part as sportsman we have the resposabilty and owe it to certain fisheries to do what's right. In Idaho we have wiped out the sockeye fishery & the Chinook fishery is not healthy by any means. I'm speaking ocean run of course on the sockeye but its an example of poor fisheries management.
QUOTE=terek;59038]hard to release a dead fish, bro. not all get lip hooked. these were the 2 gill hookers out of 6 chinook we caught that day. They will not reproduce. They have done this before years ago. Those fish were stocked in 2014 for one purpose, to reduce the koke population. That is why there is no pre determined limit on them. You just count them as a trout limit. I have been fishing that water my whole life, and the chinook stocking works. This was not the first time they did it, and it wont be the last.
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whatever. When I see a fish heavily bleeding, I'm not going to release it to watch it die. I fish for one reason. To fill my freezer. I'm a subsistence fisher, hunter and farmer. Everything I do is to fill my freezer for the winter, so I don't have to buy meat. And I rarely do. I will release a fish that I know will get bigger, but not if it is heavily bleeding. They stocked chinook in Anderson around 8 years ago, and they did not reproduce. Hence the lack of large ones, and a re stock 2 years ago. Catch em while you can, because they probably wont be there in a few more years.
 
Thats because the guys that like to keep 25 kokanee in a day are the same guys keeping 18in Chinook, they don't have a chance. I can pm you pictures that I won't post on here of many 15-25lb Chinook in Anderson an they all got released.

Coming from a guy that needs fish to stock his freezer to feed his family you should be more concerned about the fisheries reproduction rate than me..

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whatever. When I see a fish heavily bleeding, I'm not going to release it to watch it die. I fish for one reason. To fill my freezer. I'm a subsistence fisher, hunter and farmer. Everything I do is to fill my freezer for the winter, so I don't have to buy meat. And I rarely do. I will release a fish that I know will get bigger, but not if it is heavily bleeding. They stocked chinook in Anderson around 8 years ago, and they did not reproduce. Hence the lack of large ones, and a re stock 2 years ago. Catch em while you can, because they probably wont be there in a few more years.[/QUOTE]
 
Fishing should improve

Fished from Saturday the 11th through Wednesday the 15th from sun up to sun down each day. The fishing was really slow as we only boated a few fish in the upper end of the lake and we only saw a couple of nets come out over the course of 5 days. We marked a lot of fish between the power lines and the snowman but couldn't get them to bite. Fishing should improve as the weather warms up.
 
Last year I caught a Chinook 4.4 lbs, that was the first Chinook that I caught in Idaho. The BBQ Chinook tasting was so good. My wife and I released all big Squaw fish that we caught in last Summer.
 
The Chinook were 4-5 pounds and averaging 26" last year. I'm hoping that they fattened up over the winter. There were quite a few Kamloops in the 10-15 pound range. This 20 pounder was the largest that I've heard about and has kept me excited about returning this year.
 
fished Anderson tues.-fri. - crummy weather till late thurs. - not many fish - did not hear any big scores - did come up with 6 nice toads 14-18 inches- heard of a 20in caught
 
was nice to meet you and your wife G3. you guys out fished me, but did see one guy that said was his second time had 8, some of them real hogs
 
Not Great Conditions

Bottom line, we were blown all over the lake this morning. It was very difficult to control the trolling. Despite that, we pick up some trout quickly, which we were targeting this morning. 1 kokanee by accident. The water is still greenish and likely will be for the year. It was great getting out for a while. There are some big trout in Ririe this year and we were able to find many schools of kokanee. When the wind doesn't blow, I will go. worthy12
 
Fished all day Saturday between Spring Shores and Gooseneck Bay. Most fish were caught around Goosenec bay at depth of 15 and 20 feet. In the morning we caught using green Kokabow and then orange and pink later in the day. Between a buddy an myself we caught 2 trout and 8 kokanee. Much better than the previous weeks trip to Anderson were we caught just one. It was a nice 19 inch one though.
 
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Fathers Day weekend

Fished both Sat. ( family and dogs ) and Sunday ( Dad and Myself ). Saturday was tough hooked up on 8 boated 2. Sunday was better but it was at least 2 trout to evey 1 kokanee caught, we released all the trout and kept 3 koks. All the fish where caught in the top 25'.
 

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