If you have been catching atlantic salmon in western Washington rivers recently. Please tell me which river, how many and what on. Everybody says they are no threat to steelhead/salmon but I just want to keep track.

Bruce,

Picked up two on the Green in lucky hole and hooked in to one the weekend before all the way up above hwy 18 bridge. E mail me if ya need more info. thight lines Kevin

I was at the Mounts rd. bridge on the Nisqaully today and a guy told me they have been catching Atlatic Salmon up around Muck Creek. It's just below the tank crossing. said they were using small brass spinners. Hope that helps you. just curius of why yer keaping track? is it some kind of project?

dcrzfitter

They are fish that excaped from fishfarms. I am concerned that they may compete with our native fish. They are supposed to be non reproductive. I am just curious what rivers they are in. I know 2 years ago alot went up the Sky. As a side note the game guys say there is no limit on them.(Some are teenagers) So I was curious what lures/bait they hit.

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During a routine snorkeling/smolt counting in a BC river last summer some 6 Atlantic smolts were captured and tested. It was confirmed that the smolts were spawned from two seperate pairs of parents. I'm pretty positive they can do the same around here.

Many Atlantics get taken in the Sky each year, just ask the guides. Somebody told me they use the Wallace. I've only caught one, last March on the Hoh, using a gold spinner.

TK

A friend of mine caught a very ripe Atlantic hen in the Sultan R. in September '97, also on a spinner. Looks like the Sky system is popular with these fish. I got pictures of the fish -- not that anyone would doubt they're there after so many "sightings!"
Another friend, a fish biologist, says they'll never become established here because there have been official attempts to get them going here, with no luck. But that happened in the Great Lakes with Pacific salmon introductions for most of the 60's and all of a sudden, the kings, coho and steelhead got established big time.

Bruce,
Fished the Green on sunday and picked up two atlantics on the lower end of the drift. We were using short spoons one pink and the other with orange stripes. I got a buddy thats been doing great plunking using a green and white power nugget with a worm on the end. Good luck and tight lines
Kevin
P.S. the one was a hen and had eggs in her they weren't ripe yet but how about later in the year? Talked to a friend and he was saying that the reason the couldn't spawn was because the hens ripened but the bucks never did. Don't know how reliable that info is but maybe someone else can confirm it

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My friend John in Goldbar got a 5# atlantic on the Sky above Sultan on small cluster in a slow tailout. They seem to like salmon holding water. Also caught several summer runs . Fish on!

Hey, gang:
Check out the state fish records update at the WDFW site. Says Hal Boynton caught a 13.11 pound Atlantic in the Green on July 9, 1999! It's apparently listed now as one of the species eligible for a state record.

Bruce,

Was just chat'n with my unlce. His budy caught two 5 lb Atlantic Salmon last night on the lower Nisqaully. they were both hens but no eggs. didn't know what they hit on.


dcrzfitter

Thanks for all the info.