As far as I can tell this was a blackmouth that I caught at Westport on 8/13. It had no sex organs and the color of the flesh was like a springer, and it was a clipped fish. It was 37 lbs in the round, but the only keepable salmon we got that day.

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NEN

Can someone help me with this pic, I'm tired and going to bed. Thanks,

NEN

WOW! If that is truly an immature chinook (blackmouth), then that is a slab. Actually, that's a slab for any chinook. Nice job

Thanks Kid, what was I doing wrong?

NEN

Nice Fish NEN!!!

Nice fish!

NEN,

Very nice, indeed!

Was kinda thinking Salmo or some other currently practicing biologist would jump in here to illuminate us on your "BM". Although I haven't "practiced " for a long time, this is my read for what it is worth:

A blackmouth generally refers to an "immature" chinook salmon. Although this would typically include sexually immature fish, it does not necessarily include sexually undeveloped or underdeveloped fish. Just because a steroid saturated super athlete has shruken gonads doesn't make him less a grown man and more a boy. He would still be considered mature, even if lacking in some areas. Your salmon may even be bigger than usual because his energy went to more biomass and less to sexual development. But even if he was a "late bloomer" and holding on for another year till sexual maturity, I doubt he would be considered a blackmouth by most. Maybe a spring, if not a king (by Canandian standards that is).

But blackmouth, spring or king, call it what you want, I call it a slab.

Congrats.

NEN,

Nice SLAB dude. BM, King or Tyee, whatever. Hopefully, the fight was as big as the fish!

NEN,

Nice SLAB dude. BM, King or Tyee, whatever. Hopefully, the fight was as big as the fish!