When it comes to king salmon sex, it's what's inside that counts.

I think the most common error in mistaken sexual identity is calling a nice chrome mid-teens chinook a hen. Slice it open and 99 times out of a hundred, that sucker's gonna be sporting man-parts. It's the classic faggot fish. Just remember that a chinook hen smaller than 18-20 pounds is an awfully rare critter.

The only other time it can be a bit confusing is when you encounter a VERY ripe hen that's showing teeth and has lost enough facial mass that it looks like it has a pointier snout. You'd be wrong to call it a buck, and the ovipositor sticking out about 1-2 inches is all the proof you'll need.

If in doubt, the proof is always made evident on the cutting table. I thought I'd run into a hen steelhead sporting man-parts a week ago... but I was wrong.

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And Ripley posted another supposed example of a bisexual steelhead last year.... but it turned out to be a buck that had eaten a bunch of eggs that just happened to spill when he inadvertently cut the voracious bastard's stomach open....

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But check out this pic of King She-Man that Twitch sent me.... a bonafide pic of a true hermaphrodite! Looks pretty girly on the outside, but this mutant was sporting both kinds of sex organs, all of which were sharing the same blood supply!

nice knife work.

looks like big stick, balls and vagina!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hermaphrodite hatchery fish are not too uncommon.

Now I could be wrong, but I think hermaphrodited fish tend to be starile.

You know what the difference is between 'catching' a hermaphrodite person, and catching a hermaphrodite fish is?

Fish: "Hey, cool, at least I get some girl parts..."

Person: "Uh....dude?"

May need a Romulus or Jonas verification, but I think that there is a Comanshe

1,000 fillets later and they still call me Dr. Hack!!!!

Yeah, that fillet job is spot on!

Stam is no slouch with the fillet knife so a compliment from him carries some weight.

I don't know if I can find it, Francis, but I put up a pic of a hatchery summer run with one skein and one sac a few years ago, caught it on the Sky...

Fish on...

Todd

I feel dirty now.

She works at the fish counter at Cental Market.

Holy Shnikeis! The Merg of Chinook!

This pic came up in conversation the other day while sitting on the hook before the big blowout. BTB was telling his bro about the strange king with both milt and eggs inside, so I thought I'd resurrect the pic for others who may have missed it