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kestrel91316 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-13-08 06:11 PM
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GIANT chinook salmon found in Battle Creek, CA. Not a hoax, BTW.
51 inches long. The pic looks totally fake, lol, because nobody sees salmon this big anymore, right? But this was found in a Fish and Game Dept survey. So it's the real deal.

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http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/greenspace/2008/11/one-big-fish.html

This is not a year when you would expect to find a monster chinook salmon in California waters. The salmon runs have been so bad that the commercial and recreational chinook catch was canceled off the California and Oregon coast last spring.

But when state Department of Fish and Game biologists conducted their survey of fall-run chinook last month, they came across the carcass of one of the largest chinook ever recorded in California. The fish, which had died of natural causes as part of the natural spawning cycle, was found in lower Battle Creek near Red Bluff in Northern California.

Based on its measurements (51 inches long), biologists estimated the fish's live weight could have surpassed the state record, an 88-pound chinook caught in the Sacramento River.

The salmon counted in the fall surveys typically weigh 20 to 30 pounds.

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kestrel91316 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-13-08 06:13 PM
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1. I have to say it. That is one scary, ugly MoFo of a dead fish.
I am gonna have nightmares for weeks over this.
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Tandalayo_Scheisskopf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-13-08 06:13 PM
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2. That is some great DNA in the mix. nt
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eowyn_of_rohan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-13-08 06:16 PM
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3. I wonder how old that fish was...?
Hope this bodes well for the salmon kingdom :)
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BrklynLiberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-13-08 06:22 PM
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4. They said it was about 6 years old..
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eowyn_of_rohan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-13-08 06:30 PM
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9. thanks to you both
I have to read more carefully!
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kestrel91316 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-13-08 06:22 PM
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5. The article speculated about 6 years.
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Blue_In_AK Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-13-08 06:22 PM
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6. I wouldn't want to eat that guy. He looks spawned out.
Here's mine from a couple years ago. :)

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BrklynLiberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-13-08 07:02 PM
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12. Wow!! Did you smoke it and eat it for a year or so??
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Blue_In_AK Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-13-08 07:35 PM
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13. We ate some frozen and then smoked the rest.
Edited on Thu Nov-13-08 07:36 PM by Blue_In_AK
My husband had one that year that was even bigger. It was hard to eat it all up before freezer burn started to set in, since we didn't yet have a vacuum sealer, so I smoked the rest after it started turning. It was still yummy. The ones we caught this year were smaller, around 35 pounds each, so I imagine we'll eat most of it over the winter.

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kestrel91316 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-13-08 07:55 PM
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15. Salmon cans nicely, if you are comfortable using a pressure canner.
I canned up (in glass jars, actually) a whole bunch of half-pints of albacore that my BF at the time caught. I almost can't eat the store stuff now. Home canned was THAT much better.
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BrklynLiberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-13-08 08:05 PM
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19. mmmm hot smoked salmon I LOVE it..
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kestrel91316 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-13-08 07:53 PM
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14. JEEEEEEEZUS! That's just scary.
And yeah, that big 'un was quite dead when they found him floating down the river.
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Botany Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-13-08 06:24 PM
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7. Thanx for posting


Wild run salmon rule
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jody Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-13-08 06:28 PM
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8. The man holding the salmon is gritting his teeth.
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XemaSab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-13-08 06:32 PM
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11. The thing is probably fonsch as hell
:puke:
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depakid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-13-08 08:00 PM
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18. Looks like it reaks, doesn't it.
Nasty.
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kestrel91316 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-13-08 07:56 PM
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16. Well it probably about gave him a frickin' hernia holding it.........
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uppityperson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-13-08 06:31 PM
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10. Very cool. This one is only a chum...
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kestrel91316 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-13-08 07:58 PM
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17. It's only chum for a few more seconds, looks like - then it's roadkill.
I have to say, roadkill salmon is a new one on me.
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4dsc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-16-08 10:46 AM
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20. What an amazing creature...
Now that's one big a fish..
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