first blood

Finally got my first chinook on a kayak. Been trolling cut plug for five seperate days with nothing to show for it. My bait was too soft and wouldn't stay hooked up so i switched to a no. 5 blue fox and five minutes later i hooked this pretty little 22.5 inch beauty. Fun little fighter. No video unfortunately cause i lost my video camera overboard today. Really sucks but crap happens. At least i finally caught a salmon..

Nice one Roy.  I'm jealous.

It was a fat one too. could a hen be this size and not have eggs? if no eggs how to tell for sure what sex it is?

No eggs and big white sacks inside are a dead giveaway that it's a male. Congrats CBY! 5 trips for that sucker isn't bad at all. Just had to trade in that cam for something else I guess?

Z

I'm hoping to go out on salmon trip #5 or #6 for the year myself.  I really need to get rid of the skunk.

Guess I missed the part about the camera.  That's a bummer, I really look forward to your videos.

Way to go Roy!!!!

That beauty is gonna taste GOOD!    What color spinner?

Now that you've ousted the salmon skunk you're gonna be thigh deep in salmon fillets.  

It was definatley a male then. Had the big whites sacks. LOL, yea traded my 100 dollar cam for a fish. Oh well, that's the way it goes some time. Short career as a videographer..

Spot, it was a silver spinner with an orange bell, no flasher, just a 1 1/2 ounce banana weight  about 3 feet ahead of the spinner

It was definatley a male then.

Yup, just looking at it makes me think ... JACK!  And don't ask me how I can tell, it just looks like it to me.   

-Allen

Looks like our boy kykfishr also had some good action w/ 2 good Coho. Where's the report buddy?

Z

It was definatley a male then.

Yup, just looking at it makes me think ... JACK!  And don't ask me how I can tell, it just looks like it to me.   

-Allen

Hmm. I thought a Jack was between 15 and 20 inches but that's just for Coho. It's between 15 and 24 for all other species. It still counts as a chinook on the AOTY yes? I will be bumping it up soon anyway

It was definatley a male then.

Yup, just looking at it makes me think ... JACK!  And don't ask me how I can tell, it just looks like it to me.   

-Allen

Hmm. I thought a Jack was between 15 and 20 inches but that's just for Coho. It's between 15 and 24 for all other species. It still counts as a chinook on the AOTY yes? I will be bumping it up soon anyway

Of course.  It is indeed a Chinook.

-Allen

I'm hoping to go out on salmon trip #5 or #6 for the year myself.  I really need to get rid of the skunk.

Guess I missed the part about the camera.  That's a bummer, I really look forward to your videos.

You'll get 'em soon B. 5 or 6 is the lucky trip number.

Congrats, Roy. Even the little ones taste good. Jacks are almost always precocious males. They often seem more aggressive than the big boys, to me.

Yea PS, I was suprised how much line he stripped off on the first run and how much drag i had to give him to stop him.

I think the little ones taste better. Looking forward to tossing the chunk on a cedar plank tonight and BBQ'ing it up. MMM MMM good!

Congrats!  Wa to hang in there, those football fish with shoulders make for real good eating, and it's a chromer.