10-16-2013, 02:22 AM
[left]Hahaha nope thats the only photo I could get. It was to hard to take a picture and keep the fish docile.
The white gums (on upper jaw) are the reason I didnt think it was a chinook. I am trying to remember the lower jaw, I had the fish on its back to remove the hook from the roof of its mouth so I dont remember the lower jaw all that much.
I thought Coho, after seeing one when I was way younger up in Alaska. But I have not heard anything about Coho in Idaho, I know they used to be here and last I heard they were being reintroduced but I havent really heard much about them. After a little googling it sounds like coho would be redish this time of year? No red on this fish.
Basing off what I have been told coho like to run and Chinook like to dive. This one for sure dove. It swam upstream 10 yards into a deep hole then dove. As soon as my float came back to the surface it went back down into the hole.
I really need to work on my fish ID but it seems I always find one exception that always tricks me. Had a few cutts trick me this summer, everything about them looked like a brown trout, they had very little to no red and their dots were massive.... [unimpressed]
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The white gums (on upper jaw) are the reason I didnt think it was a chinook. I am trying to remember the lower jaw, I had the fish on its back to remove the hook from the roof of its mouth so I dont remember the lower jaw all that much.
I thought Coho, after seeing one when I was way younger up in Alaska. But I have not heard anything about Coho in Idaho, I know they used to be here and last I heard they were being reintroduced but I havent really heard much about them. After a little googling it sounds like coho would be redish this time of year? No red on this fish.
Basing off what I have been told coho like to run and Chinook like to dive. This one for sure dove. It swam upstream 10 yards into a deep hole then dove. As soon as my float came back to the surface it went back down into the hole.
I really need to work on my fish ID but it seems I always find one exception that always tricks me. Had a few cutts trick me this summer, everything about them looked like a brown trout, they had very little to no red and their dots were massive.... [unimpressed]
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