How to fight a Chinook salmon on the fly rod

[denisquill]

in ireland i would have two sold 20 euro kg in same time

[AnotherAmateur]

I've heard chinook salmon don't eat when they are in fresh water heading for spawning. This is amazing!

[CrazedMachine]

@AnotherAmateur

Salmon don't eat when they're spawning. That's why you use large colorful flies to entice their curiosity and predator instincts to strike the fly rather than giving him something that looks like normal food.

[Trichomes503]

@AnotherAmateur

Salmon and steelhead do eat while in freshwater. I've caught many wight full stomachs. But as far as I've been told they do not metabolize the food in their stomachs, rather they use the fat stored throughout their bodies. Kelts wouldn't have much of a chance at survival if steelhead didn't eat in freshwater.

[AnotherAmateur]

@Trichomes503 My comment was about Chinook salmon not steelhead trout. In some salmon species, such as Atlantic salmon, a very few females will survive spawning to return to the sea, but that is a very, very tiny percentage. 'Kelts' are fish that have spawned. Pacific salmon species die within a few days or weeks of spawning (semelparity) with clear evidence of phenoptosis often visible even before spawning. Steelhead are different.

[Platingisfun]

Thanks guys for sharing with us.

[TheTeamFnish]

Beautiful instruction and walkthrough Barrett!! A perfect tailing and release. Thats what its all about right there.

[TheTeamFnish]

Get your feet movin brother!!!!!! Chase that fish if ya have too! :) Great catch and tutorial Barrett. Prob a catch of a lifetime with education to boot. :)

Bud, Team Fnish

[Dylan1994Hunter]

Good job. I really want fish salmon one day. What wt of rod

[TheFlyfisherman15]

I am a newbie at fly fishing salmon andthis video helped me land a 24 pound chinook in a local river here in Bella Coola B.C. It was my first chinook on the fly rod.

[foketesz]

yeah, man, go make 100.000 more, and if we all do the same, no matter the species, they'll make a billion more

way to go :-)

[OMGitsme3335]

what weight rod and tippet?

[blaserfan]

i live in oregon to

[TripleDubFishing]

Cool video, good looking fish. Already looking forward to the season.

[Goober6669]

Talk about gettin lucky on him not taking a mad run. Good stuff, keep on releasing them beasts for the future!

[frenchjesse90]

what fly were you using

[benner666666]

great video, classy fisherman! not some dumb bubba flossing spawners in alaska

[woldy16]

Awesome Fish!!! Great release!!!

tight lines...