10-23-2013, 01:13 AM
I don't see what's wrong with it. Regs don't say anything about trying to catch them above the memorial bridge, you just can't HARVEST them above it. If there weren't an open season down the creek though, it might be a different story though. But you just posted a pic of a coho you caught on the Clearwater didn't you? Pretty sure there isn't a harvest season on them yet.
Anyway that's not even worth worrying about. The dude would probably like to know what he caught though, especially since it would be a first for him. And I don't really think it's a coho either. I noted the white gums right off the bat, that's why I started out saying salmon and didn't go straight to chinook. But upon further consideration, I'm pretty sure it's a chinook. Nothing else says coho besides the gums, and I have seen plenty of chinook that have little or no black in the mouth.
And then there's the whole numbers game: probably close to 40,000 chinook in the Clearwater this fall and less than 2,000 coho. For you gamblers out there that's 20:1 odds.
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Anyway that's not even worth worrying about. The dude would probably like to know what he caught though, especially since it would be a first for him. And I don't really think it's a coho either. I noted the white gums right off the bat, that's why I started out saying salmon and didn't go straight to chinook. But upon further consideration, I'm pretty sure it's a chinook. Nothing else says coho besides the gums, and I have seen plenty of chinook that have little or no black in the mouth.
And then there's the whole numbers game: probably close to 40,000 chinook in the Clearwater this fall and less than 2,000 coho. For you gamblers out there that's 20:1 odds.
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