[Gregg H]

"Identify" MORE PICS FOUND!!

I landed this fish while striper fishing in the delta in N Cal on friday. The new pics show more black on the gums and nice spots on her tail.

 

[Old Man]

Looks like a Coho. White gums

 

[Ethan G.]

Looks like a Coho. White gums

iagree

 

[dryflylarry]

I'll go along with OMJ and say Coho, and a fat one at that!

 

[Steelie Mike]

Since you caught at in the Delta, I would think it is a chinook, but the gums do make it look like a coho. I do not remember any rivers down there that still had any left. Awesome bycatch! How is the striper fishing down there this year?

 

[Gregg H]

Looks like a Coho. White gums

Spots on his head, are you sure?

 

[Steelie Mike]

Spots on his head, are you sure?

The gum line at the base of the teeth should be dark, which looks like white or gray in the picture. Both silvers and chinook can have spots on their head. Well at least that is what I recall. Here is our chinook identification from WDFW.

How big was it?

 

[Chris Johnson]

Just a guess but, it looks like an atlantic salmon.

 

[Split Bamboo]

It looks like a King, 'cept the gums. The spots say King as well.

 

[Steelie Mike]

It looks like a King, 'cept the gums. The spots say King as well.

That is the first thing I thought as well. Do you have any other pictures of the fish to drool over and examine?

 

[TomB]

chinook

 

[ak_powder_monkey]

I've caught plenty of coho with spots like that

 

[rainbow]

Salmon, Sounds like a good day. How big was he, And how did he fight compared to the Striper's.

 

[Guest]

That fish you have there is a fugitive, an escapement from the farm.

 

[SilverFly]

Can't tell from the gumline but everything else says nooky to me (checkered spots, shape of the head.) Does N. Cal get a late (apparently very late) coho run? If only the internet had smellavision, - I could ID that pig for sure.

Lucky bastiche.

 

[Leopardbow]

I've caught plenty of coho with spots like that

Ditto

 

[Guest]

The spots are killing me but it is coho imo

 

[Guest]

That is a great pic and a better question.

I am gonna say it is a ocean bright hen Coho.

Congrats on the encounter.

 

[13418]

Nothing to see here

 

[Don Freeman]

Looks like coho, but there can be a lot of individual variation.

The photo doesn't show whether the adipose is present, at least I can't tell. If it was clipped, check with your local hatcheries.