Big king!

[danjr]

Wow this is a big king!

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,446686,00.html

[carpedium]

whoa, not much less than double the NYS record of 47lb!

imagine catching a 33lb brown...

[stan]

Dan

Battle creek is just south of me about 50 miles. The sacramento river runs throught our property. The state closed Salmon fihing in the river this year and off the coast. Other wise that thing just might be in the dishwasher being steamed or the refrigerator out back being smoked

[FISHINMAN]

Why the heck weren't you fishing for that bad boy Stan :shock: One of Jax's hooks and he'd of been all yours :shock:

[stan]

The state closed the rivers for fishing this year, do to the low salmon count

[rail bird]

Stan,

Do they stock salmon in the rivers out west like we do in the great lakes?

[jimski2]

A good reason for the size of this fish is a lack of competition for the forage available. We demand the DEC stock more Kings along with the recent finds of natural reproduction. Our forage base is declining. If a King has to feed on emerald shiners, it would starve because the energy expended to catch the emeralds would exceed the nutrition available in the emerald shiner.

[stan]

Greg

Yes they do stock them in the rivers, There are to many dams for all natural . Some of the fish hit small creeks like this one did, befor the hatchery . But the majority are done at the hatchery. The main river for that fish is the Sacramento. Some other rivers are the Trinity, Klamath, American and there all have dams.

I also agree with Jimski2 thats one of the major problems out here on the west coast ocean. It is fish so hard, with nets it's cut the food supply down for the Kings . The seals are another problem . They follow the Kings and Stripers miles up the rivers and feed on them , and thats a sight to see a 25lb fish being tossed up into the air.

[rail bird]

Thanks for the info Stan,

I guess watching a seal toy with a 20lb fish is a larger version of my cat toying with a 20 gram mouse.

[Gill-T]

Could you imagine what that guy's hands smell like! :mrgreen: