Poll: Identify this catch

[Yarome]

So the light banding if the gums is the giveaway on this one?

It's one indicator but not exclusively. More specifically... it's the white/silver line running below the teeth on the lower jaw.

 

[Yarome]

White mouth. Steelhead. Might be a tad early in light of the lack of rain But coho, which it does like have dark mouths.

"Can" be, but steelhead also have flat tails... not "V" cut... and not ribbed.

 

[Xaevian]

The clipped fin clearly indicates a genus-fluid transpecies adaptation, probably doing a trans book reading for jacks.

 

[Xaevian]

The clipped fin clearly indicates a genus-fluid transpecies adaptation, probably doing a trans book reading for jacks.

Lemme guess, whoever caught it had too much drag on their spool?

 

[Stomper]

I think he bought a whole farmed-raised fish from the Safeway meat counter, then slapped it around on the sandy river bank and is trying to pass himself off as the great American fisherman…

THAT'S what I think!

 

[solv3nt]

I think he bought a whole farmed-raised fish from the Safeway meat counter, then slapped it around on the sandy river bank and is trying to pass himself off as the great American fisherman…

THAT'S what I think!

 

[Stomper]

Now do some Don Rickles!!

 

[jbett98]

You can tell you've hooked a Steelhead by the way if fights after you've set the hook.
They fight and fight hard all the way to the bank or boat. Coho's are feisty at first, but tend to wear down rather quickly, especially if they made it up into freshwater.

 

[solv3nt]

You can tell you've hooked a Steelhead by the way if fights after you've set the hook.
They fight and fight hard all the way to the bank or boat. Coho's are feisty at first, but tend to wear down rather quickly, especially if they made it up into freshwater.

The fish I caught, and my daughter's coho only fought up to about five minutes. My buddies fish in the picture fought hard.

 

[Bobbygun]

Don't you fellas know a sturgeon when you see one?

Seriously. I think it's just a rainbow trout like this one I caught at Fern Ridge a couple of weeks ago.

 

[solv3nt]

Don't you fellas know a sturgeon when you see one?

Seriously. I think it's just a rainbow trout like this one I caught at Fern Ridge a couple of weeks ago.

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LOL, is that a carp or cat?

 

[Bobbygun]

LOL, is that a carp or cat?

RAINBOW TROUT! Can't you read???!!!

LOL. When my kids were little, we would take the raft out on Dexter Reservoir and slay the pike minnows. I always told them they were rainbow trout.

The picture is a carp. We did catch a few cats that day, but they were under 6 inches. I was with my grown son, and we were just there for the entertainment, not food. I was actually shocked at the fight that carp put up. I was using some ultralight equipment and he was stripping line like crazy.

I could only contribute humor to your thread, because a fisherman I ain't. I dearly love to hunt, but I've only gone fishing twice this year, which is probably once more than my yearly average. I'll probably do a little more in the future. As the hunting gets poorer, my son is gravitating toward fishing and keeps inviting me along.

 

[jbett98]

The fish I caught, and my daughter's coho only fought up to about five minutes. My buddies fish in the picture fought hard.

Did it leap out of the water mad as heII, while it was shaking it's head trying to spit the hook?

 

[solv3nt]

Did it leap out of the water mad as heII, while it was shaking it's head trying to spit the hook?

His or mine? My daughter's first coho spit the hook and leapt out of my lap all in one move.

 

[solv3nt]

RAINBOW TROUT! Can't you read???!!!

Lol, yeah, but that ain't no rainbow

 

[Yarome]

Lol, yeah, but that ain't no rainbow

FOUL!!! You have absolutely no right to dictate how a fishy may or may not choose to identify themselves. You should be ashamed of yourself!

 

[Caveman Jim]

If you try and pick up a coho salmon by the tail and try to hold it nose down you will drop it because it has a slick tail.
Kings, humpies, sockeye and steelhead all have a flared tail that you can grip.
This was explained to me by a hatchery worker that has handled hundreds of thousands of fish and I believe him because he showed me.

The fish in question is no doubt, a Coho.

 

[solv3nt]

If you try and pick up a coho salmon by the tail and try to hold it nose down you will drop it because it has a slick tail.
Kings, humpies, sockeye and steelhead all have a flared tail that you can grip.
This was explained to me by a hatchery worker that has handled hundreds of thousands of fish and I believe him because he showed me.

The fish in question is no doubt, a Coho.

If you do a piss poor job netting a coho, it will, given the chance, jump out of your kayak.

 

[Yarome]

If you do a piss poor job netting a coho, it will, given the chance, jump out of your kayak.

That sounds like more of a personal problem, but one day they'll probably have a pill for that.




Ohh... "netting". NVM

 

[solv3nt]

That sounds like more of a personal problem, but one day they'll probably have a pill for that.




Ohh... "netting". NVM

I don't know about the rest of the inebriates on here, but I don't want to know what you do with your fish. What happens in your kayak, stays in your kayak