Barrett from The Caddis Fly shop coaches a newbie chinook salmon angler on how to land this huge chrome fish. For more tips and fly tying videos for salmon, check out www.OregonFlyFishingBlog.com.
@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.
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.
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.
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. :)
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.
@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.
AnotherAmateur 1 month ago
@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.
Trichomes503 1 month ago
in ireland i would have two sold 20 euro kg in same time
denisquill 2 months ago
@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.
CrazedMachine 3 months ago
I've heard chinook salmon don't eat when they are in fresh water heading for spawning. This is amazing!
AnotherAmateur 3 months ago
Thanks guys for sharing with us.
Platingisfun 7 months ago
Beautiful instruction and walkthrough Barrett!! A perfect tailing and release. Thats what its all about right there.
TheTeamFnish 8 months ago
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
TheTeamFnish 8 months ago
Good job. I really want fish salmon one day. What wt of rod
Dylan1994Hunter 11 months ago
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.
TheFlyfisherman15 1 year ago