Tale of a 100-pound salmon

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PAT NEAL: The tale of the 100-pound salmon | Peninsula Daily News

Who says there’s no good news? A new world-record Chinook salmon weighing over 105 pounds was recently landed by a lucky angler.

www.peninsuladailynews.com

 

[Deviant]

Interesting read.
My cousin's husband has been part of the recording/documentation of the Elwha removal/restoration and I have been following it from the sharing of information. Of course there is a perceived "high hopes" of restoration taking the watershed back to a before the dam time and we should see the "glory days" return.

Reality in my "pessimistic mind" is that follow the money as there is an motive for the $$$$.

 

[EJ Swanny]

Frikin' Chile.....really??? IMO, you can't tear down a huge structure that has controlled that river for decades upon decades, and expect returns for at least a decade or two. The amount of silt that got flushed down that river when it was destroyed was immense/HUGE. We can't rush nature, it will be some time still, but they will return.....if there's anything out there to return.

 

[Tunahead]

That sounds like one BEAST of a Salmon.
The gang here says "BS WITHOUT PICS"

 

[Whalebreath]

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[liltrouble]

Here you go TV Datos

 

[Barracuda1]

Here you go TV Datos

That toofless dude's probably 4'7" tall.

 

[frijolito]

Here you go TV Datos

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his cousin is a now famous EX-tournament walleye fisherman from the midwest so they should check the belly for lead.
Now if I had that pic and that angle of fish Id be kicking up the weight estimate a kilo or two to impress the chicks also

 

[Captain Decent]

here we are playing grab ass about hatchery vs wild fish in local rivers while mfers are importing and raising our broodstock creating huge runs of big ass salmon halfway round the world and the Great Lakes without a care in the world for how it affects the local ecosystems.

We are so stupid

 

[critterkiller]

Austral Kings. On my bucket list. I believe they are of Columbia River origin as noted. I suspect a lot of big fish are swept in bycatch. Can't spend 6+ years around here and not get snatched.

 

[Rellis]

Man has permanently altered our environment. Salmon production depends on the full life cycle of the salmon. Bottom line, more hatchery salmon equals more salmon.