question about eating kokes

[FiliIslander]

I totally agree with you MMDON about the white kings. I liked them best smoked in Alder wood. I never ate fish smoked in that wood until my stay in Juneau. Alder seems to be the wood of choice with the locals. I heard the white kings all come from a certain river in Canada. I don't know how true that is but maybe some of you fellow fisherman would know.

 

[BlueBack79]

i remember reading something about the white kings about a year ago and how sought after and expensive they were in the resaurants. believe it or not, back in the day, the white kings were considered junk!! my cousin said they catch them every once in a blue moon up around whidbey island. and he also says they are amazing eating fish.

 

[Busspass]

I was fishing at about 20' btw

 

[MMDON]

The Indians in Alaska will trade you 2 or 3 lbs of orange King meat to 1 in weight for your white Kings at any of the packing places. I kept all mine! (wink)

 

[jimbojump]

Hahahaha...

Sorry Busspass for the fish id problem...here is something to help you next time. Notice the difference in body type and build...kokes are bigger in girth and have a more forked tail...when first caught, they are shiney silver and a very pronounced blue back...hence the term Blueback...
PS..that fish looks sad bro...looks like a weakling stocker trout to me...they are usually very pale in comparison to the native ones.

 

[KokeJunkie]

I understand why you were confused Busspass. The trout I caught this year made me do a doubletake as well. They definately had the blue/green backs and were very silver with very little trout like spots but the fins, tail and heads were wrong. I actually got in an arguement with the wife who was convinced I was throwing back kokanee. Would have been easier to tell the difference if we had actually boated a koke to compare but LP has not been nice to us this year 101thumbsdown101