22/25, damn crapy picturs

 

One of the later fish they called a Coho sure seemed like it had a pointy skinny beak nose that I thought was fishy/suspicious.

 

I got 24 out of 25, but their answer to the first question is debatable. Following reclassification of steelhead to the genus Oncorhyncus, many now consider steelhead to be a species of pacific salmon, which would change their answer.

 

Don't forget about cutthroat trout being considered a species of Pacific salmon since they were also reclassified

 

I missed the state fish of Alaska. Figured Sheefish or Grayling..so took a wrong stab.

State critters and rocks and such are usually offish choices made by grade schoolers so one has to think differently, except for this one I guess!

 

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22 out of 25. The state fish, chrome chum, and sockeye identifier got me

 

Large pupils on the chum

 

20/25. apparently I do not know my Pinks.

 

21/25
better than I expected.
j

 

I should have paid closer attention to the questions before I picked my answers. 21/25.

 

Time for @DrHare to shine

 

21 of 25 with some luck on the black oval q. I know pinks, chum and spawners well as the best to eat. If a WA quiz we could add what is an adipose, management, net quota questions, and maybe HOG now. Is our fish the crappie as illustrated on the sorriest pamphlet picture ever?

 

22/25
Missed the first chum picture, the state fish and the tail question I think.
SF

 

Holly cow I beat salmo_g, yes pics were not very good, missed state fish and 2 of the cromer pics

 

22/25

 

23 out of 25. A couple lucky guesses along the way. I still feel pretty ripped off by the coho I mistook for a king because everything in its mouth except its gums was black. The white gums were just barely visible, but they were there. The other one that tricked me was the ocean chum. I guessed sockeye on that one.

That was fun.

 

24/25, I missed the state fish picked sockeye.

 

Five species of salmon, state fish, and one of the spawn colors as I haven't seen them in rivers.

I'm in awe of all the folks who did so well.

 

Five species of salmon, state fish, and one of the spawn colors as I haven't seen them in rivers.

I'm in awe of all the folks who did so well.

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I'm embarrassed and not telling! Big eye, narrow wrist: chum. Pale tail: sockeye. Big silvers were kings, unless the tender called bs. Pinks were pinks, including all the dollies. Purse Seiners Bible!

 

WFF's newest salmon expert.

 

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WFF's newest salmon expert.

pffff......

We get a mulligan, right (first try was 22/25 )

 

I know better than to take a survey which will embarrass me... So I got 0 of 25 and I am proud of it.

 

Have had no luck finding a good northwest or US trout quiz yet

 

That's because we already take a Mensa test each year:

 

23/25. Missed state fish and went against my better judgement on the chrome chum.

 

Well that was fun; thanks for posting. It does help when you oversee a number of people who identify adult salmon for a living or work on a fishing boat in Alaska. After a two-day seine opening with working over 40 hours on maybe 2 or 3 hours sleep and you have to unload a hatch full of money fish, and the only thing between you and hitting the bunk is sorting and unloading your catch, you get real good, real fast at identifying adult salmon. Of course having them in hand is a lot easier than looking at a photo.

 

That's how I learned.

 

Missed one...Two summers checking sport caught fish in LaPush during summers of '67 and '68 branded images in my brain!

 

23/25, I missed the state fish and one fish ID.

 

That was fun, particularly since I have not fished for about 2 months now and I am truly getting the shakes, even digital fish sounds better than no fish at all. I did it on Thursday night, and although somehow I got 25/25, I have to confess that earlier this year we caught a salmon that fought like a king, it looked like a legal size hatchery king, had spots on both tail lobes, large spots on dorsal of body, a black mouth, that king salmon color hue on the back too, was measured to make sure it was a legal sized king, was tagged as such only to discover later that it was an impostor, a coho salmon impersonating a king, the only tell tale was the faintly white/grey gums on a very black mouth that somehow we missed it on the boat. Glad it was not the other way around. Always good to check and double check, keeping the fish in the water and minimally handling the fish if at all, sometimes hard to do with barbless hooks but that's the game we play!

 

That was fun, particularly since I have not fished for about 2 months now and I am truly getting the shakes, even digital fish sounds better than no fish at all. I did it on Thursday night, and although somehow I got 25/25, I have to confess that earlier this year we caught a salmon that fought like a king, it looked like a legal size hatchery king, had spots on both tail lobes, large spots on dorsal of body, a black mouth, that king salmon color hue on the back too, was measured to make sure it was a legal sized king, was tagged as such only to discover later that it was an impostor, a coho salmon impersonating a king, the only tell tale was the faintly white/grey gums on a very black mouth that somehow we missed it on the boat. Glad it was not the other way around. Always good to check and double check, keeping the fish in the water and minimally handling the fish if at all, sometimes hard to do with barbless hooks but that's the game we play!
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Short cut, clipped fin=butterfly filet

 

25/25
Guessed on the state fish, but king made sense.