Fishing green can this afternoon and tomorrow

Thanks, Poly.  If I make it Saturday it'll be a bright yellow pickup and a blue Native Slayer Propel 🙂

Would love to join you, but my son has a baseball game in Elma Sat. Hopefully I'll have a good report for you after tomorrow!

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Fish hard.

Oh yeah.  I have found that the pedal boat handles that a lot easier than my first paddle boat.  Haven't been out there to the delta but enough time around the area that the current ought to be ok.  And I do definitely keep reserve to make it back to shore no matter what.

Jim

Hooked 5 and landed 3 natives today. This was the largest.





When the bite turned on, everyone caught fish except my son... He hooked 2 but they both came unbuttoned quickly. Only saw 2 fish retained out of all the catching. Lots of natives and undersized fish.

Also, this is what the Green Can looks like for those who were asking.



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Thanks for the pic (and nice fish even if he had to go back)

I would be delighted to land *any* salmon, even if isn't a keeper.  Gotta get that first one... 

Jim

I like your stockings.

Nice fish,  shouldn't take a wild one out of the water though. I kinda cringed. Don't want someone realizing we as kayak fishermen have an impact on wild stock and taking us out of the estimates for catch, encounters, or more importantly mortality (probably higher than an average boat) used for boat fishermen. We would get rules specific to us,  and it wouldn't go our way. 

Don't forget that mark selective rules came about so we can have any fisheries at all in the sound.  Where else can you target ESA listed species? Anyways, it just looks bad holding a treatend species out of water, it's like trying to drown a gorilla and taking a picture of it.

Nice fish,  shouldn't take a wild one out of the water though. I kinda cringed. Don't want someone realizing we as kayak fishermen have an impact on wild stock and taking us out of the estimates for catch, encounters, or more importantly mortality (probably higher than an average boat) used for boat fishermen. We would get rules specific to us,  and it wouldn't go our way. 

Don't forget that mark selective rules came about so we can have any fisheries at all in the sound.  Where else can you target ESA listed species? Anyways, it just looks bad holding a treatend species out of water, it's like trying to drown a gorilla and taking a picture of it.

I agree almost 100%. What couldn't be clearly seen here since these were stills was the fish coming out of the net to posing height, and without even slowing down directly into the water for release (hence the one almost pose, and one odd angle). I also make sure to only put my fingers on the Gill plate, and never contact the gills themselves. My son was hanging out with the camera waiting for me to land/remove it from the net. He just peddled by snapping pics while I moved it from net to water.  Meanwhile, the power boats around us had wild fish flopping on the deck before picture posing prior to release.

I do believe we are often times more successful than power boaters, and some have poor handling practices due to our restricted seating arrangement. I'm quick to call it out when I see it in person, and would hope others have the intestinal fortitude to do the same.

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I like your stockings.

Thanks, they're the latest in kayak fashion. Might pitch them to Kokatat 😜

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Nice fish,  shouldn't take a wild one out of the water though. I kinda cringed. Don't want someone realizing we as kayak fishermen have an impact on wild stock and taking us out of the estimates for catch, encounters, or more importantly mortality (probably higher than an average boat) used for boat fishermen. We would get rules specific to us,  and it wouldn't go our way. 

Don't forget that mark selective rules came about so we can have any fisheries at all in the sound.  Where else can you target ESA listed species? Anyways, it just looks bad holding a treatend species out of water, it's like trying to drown a gorilla and taking a picture of it.

I agree almost 100%. What couldn't be clearly seen here since these were stills was the fish coming out of the net to posing height, and without even slowing down directly into the water for release (hence the one almost pose, and one odd angle). I also make sure to only put my fingers on the Gill plate, and never contact the gills themselves. My son was hanging out with the camera waiting for me to land/remove it from the net. He just peddled by snapping pics while I moved it from net to water.  Meanwhile, the power boats around us had wild fish flopping on the deck before picture posing prior to release.

I do believe we are often times more successful than power boaters, and some have poor handling practices due to our restricted seating arrangement. I'm quick to call it out when I see it in person, and would hope others have the intestinal fortitude to do the same.

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Fish organs are not meant to support their own weight like ours. You can fatally injure a fish that big by just taking it out of the water. The survival of these wild fish is what allows us to fish for salmon in the sound. As soon as they get to truely dire levels fishing for Chinook would probably get shut down sound wide for both wild and clipped fish. I'm not trying to be petty or argue, just illustrate how important these wild fish are to our fisheries. The value of that fish reaching Nisqually gravel far outweighs any picture taken of it.

Work hard,  I salute you....that's good advise for everyone. We need to think hard about how we release fish, you can get a great photo in the water

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Nice fish,  shouldn't take a wild one out of the water though. I kinda cringed. Don't want someone realizing we as kayak fishermen have an impact on wild stock and taking us out of the estimates for catch, encounters, or more importantly mortality (probably higher than an average boat) used for boat fishermen. We would get rules specific to us,  and it wouldn't go our way. 

Don't forget that mark selective rules came about so we can have any fisheries at all in the sound.  Where else can you target ESA listed species? Anyways, it just looks bad holding a treatend species out of water, it's like trying to drown a gorilla and taking a picture of it.

I agree almost 100%. What couldn't be clearly seen here since these were stills was the fish coming out of the net to posing height, and without even slowing down directly into the water for release (hence the one almost pose, and one odd angle). I also make sure to only put my fingers on the Gill plate, and never contact the gills themselves. My son was hanging out with the camera waiting for me to land/remove it from the net. He just peddled by snapping pics while I moved it from net to water.  Meanwhile, the power boats around us had wild fish flopping on the deck before picture posing prior to release.

I do believe we are often times more successful than power boaters, and some have poor handling practices due to our restricted seating arrangement. I'm quick to call it out when I see it in person, and would hope others have the intestinal fortitude to do the same.

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Fish organs are not meant to support their own weight like ours. You can fatally injure a fish that big by just taking it out of the water. The survival of these wild fish is what allows us to fish for salmon in the sound. As soon as they get to truely dire levels fishing for Chinook would probably get shut down sound wide for both wild and clipped fish. I'm not trying to be petty or argue, just illustrate how important these wild fish are to our fisheries. The value of that fish reaching Nisqually gravel far outweighs any picture taken of it.

I hear you loud and clear, and agree. The picture wasn't posed or staged is what I was saying. The fish was in the net  submerged in water. I took it from the net to place it in open water. My son was just in the right place at the right time. That's why you don't see pictures of three natives here, just one. It was a 3sec transition, and another 5sec of me holding it right side up while submerged before it swam away. Only difference in this release, and all the others I've made over the years was I lifted it 24-30" out of the water instead of 10", and the camera just happened to be in the right place.

While on the subject of release, what's your take on holding the fish until it swims away vs. dropping them over head first?

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Beautiful fish.  Not to trivialize the fish handling discussion from a survival perspective , but there is the potential for a ticket here.  You might want to remove the photos.

Beautiful fish.  Not to trivialize the fish handling discussion from a survival perspective , but there is the potential for a ticket here.  You might want to remove the photos.

Thanks for looking out snopro. I'm good according to the law. The fish never came inside the gunwales. I'm sitting sidesaddle with the net/hoop in the water. There are a lot of boats there that should be ticketed. A WDFW officer could write a book full on that spot on just what I've seen the last 3 days!

Handling Rule: in Areas 5-13, it
is illegal to bring a wild SALMON or a species of SALMON aboard a vessel if it is unlawful to retain those SALMON. "Aboard a vessel" is defined as inside the gunwale.

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My bad.  On smart phone sized  photos it looked like it was inside the gunwale.  Congratulations on your success rate.