2011 Salmon Season~pics

[TJL]

Well, we did it again! The Sol Duc River treated us well once again and as promised, Duane got to redeem himself and bagged a couple beauties. His son Ethan got a firsthand experience of reelin' in a nice Coho and even hung onto a big King for a moment that I hooked up.

My days catch: 27# & 17# Chinook and 14# & 9# Coho

Duane and Ethan with a 23# Chinook and 12# & 7# Coho

Gotta show off them Kings

A happy young fisherman

Cheers, Todd

 

[trido]

What a day indeed! :fish2: I had a great time and for a short while almost thought I would have the honorary largest fish of the day bragging rights. Then Todd's mad fishing skills kicked in and he pulled in two very nice Kings to finish off his day. :smokin: I guess its only fitting that the master show the apprentice who's teaching who.

Oh! BTW, Todd when I first opened the pic with your fish in it. I thought your 27# was a chicken halibut laying there. That thing is a lunker!

 

[tamarindthai]

What a day indeed! :fish2: I had a great time and for a short while almost thought I would have the honorary largest fish of the day bragging rights. Then Todd's mad fishing skills kicked in and he pulled in two very nice Kings to finish off his day. :smokin: I guess its only fitting that the master show the apprentice who's teaching who.

Oh! BTW, Todd when I first opened the pic with your fish in it. I thought your 27# was a chicken halibut laying there. That thing is a lunker!

I,m total agree with you,Todd you,re the man,,,wow!! What a catches...

 

[Herefishyfishy]

All beautiful fish and excellent results. I think Ethan gets the award for lifetime largest catch.

 

[TJL]

Well I can't believe that no one has played on this thread yet. So... as long as I keep on catchin' I'll keep on postin' the pics. Floated the Skykomish River on Friday and did pretty well with a couple of fish in the 8-10lb range, cold and rainy so no pics. Today a friend and I gave it another shot today to fish in the sunshine and was good for two limits of Coho (3 for the Smoker and 3 fresh/bright ones for the grill)

Pretty lil' native Coho

the 2 bright ones I brought home and vac-packed for tonights & upcoming dinners

Cheers, Todd

P.S. the splotching on the fillets is lemon juice, along with a dash of lemon-pepper and brown sugar

 

[eww]

Man the fish have been just jumping in your boat this year Todd. Too bad it wasn't that way last year when I got to go

And that sure looks like an upgrade in boat since I last went as well... Nice drifter!!!

 

[tamarindthai]

fish again and again wow!!,great catch as always,i better get all my stuffs together very very soon.had been busy with broken gas furnace 2nd chamber no heat for the last 2 weeks in the house,,cooooold,,,ready to be repaired tomorrow,,then here we go,,i still have your #talk to you very soon..Tod

 

[tamarindthai]

look like another good day fishing again today for you,,Tod,,yeah
finally i got furnace fixed,,,heating through the whole house,
time for learn and go fishing:yo:

 

[tamarindthai]

:fish2:Tod,,thank you for the casting fishing lesson and 30"+ to undo my first cast ,,condo nest out of the reel to day,,wow!! now you know how much i knew about casting,,,HE he
i will go to the park or Beaver lake practice casting for more tomorrow..

 

[TJL]

Well.... I just had to post one last time on this thread. Had not bothered posting any fish pics from subsequent trips where I/we continued to slay them but who would of thought that I'd still be doing this well on the last day of November. So my buddy Jim gives me a call last night and asked me if I thought there would still be any catchable Coho in the Skykomish and I say "There is only one way to find out..." Started the float about 9am, to the Honey Hole by 9:30 and F-I-V-E fish in the boat by 11am then had to weed through a few to get the last and brightest fish around 1pm... so without further ado....

Coho # 1

Coho # 2

Coho # 3

Coho # 4 my last er... I mean Jim's last

2 limits of beautiful late season Coho on the Skykomish River

I could not have had a better year of Salmon Fishing in Washington State.


Cheers until next year, Todd

 

[rainydave]

Thanks again Todd. Can't wait to eat em!

 

[trido]

WOW! You sure weren't kidding about those suckers being bright and fresh. Nice catch!

For those of you that feel jealous and wish you were there today, (well, I am too) at least Todd didn't call you while you were at work just to rub it in.
For the rest of the afternoon, I'd grin to myself and say "That *%$#@*&^& *&$@## Todd!! Out fishing!! He should be working on something at Home!! Not fishing!!" Maybe I'm extra jealous :rofl:

 

[tamarindthai]

i am not surprised at all about Todd out there fishing and marked up on his 3rd punch card,,with silver coho..wow !!congrats you are ..very nice looking fishes.

 

[tamarindthai]

:blabla:Todd ,,we went out salmon fishing today got lucky,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,at Safeway,,,he he
here is the Rose Salmon looks like serve with red hot thai chilly pepper and ginger,,yum yum,,prepare by Oum's

 

[TJL]

WOW! Beautiful presentation Dang, tell Oum she is a truely talented Culinary Artist.


Cheers, Todd

 

[tamarindthai]

WOW! Beautiful presentation Dang, tell Oum she is a truely talented Culinary Artist.


Cheers, Todd

told Uom ,,she said thank you,,,

i found the old picture ,massing around using small spinner at the Alki beach point about 1978,,caught one of blackmount and some guy on the beach took the picture and give it to me ,that is the very first salmon i caught in my life,,that is so much fun landing it with my own hand

 

[tamarindthai]

we got lucky today from the lake near by exact,20" trout 4.9lbs

 

[TJL]

WOW! very nice trout

Cheers, Todd

 

[Peppie]

we got lucky today from the lake near by exact,20" trout 4.9lbs

Wow!! What size tank DO you have? And how are you going to acclimate that bugger??

 

[tamarindthai]

Wow!! What size tank DO you have? And how are you going to acclimate that bugger??

acclimated in oven broil and little seasoning on top ,,come out very testy yum yum,,