Spawning salmon

packerbacker · Sep 29, 2009

My grandson and I were on our way to one of our favorite fishing holes but we stopped by a creek on the way. We found 3 salmon spawning there. A large hen was being pursued by two males. The hen would swim in large circles while the males followed bumping into each other for breeding rights. Got to fill my grandson in on the life cycle of salmon and he was pretty impressed; he thinks "salmon are neat!".

Bridge End Farm · Sep 29, 2009

nice pic from a precious time

sasnz · Sep 29, 2009

Gotta love those tail wagers.

Sasnz

naturegirl · Sep 29, 2009

Wow, the females are called hens? I didn't know.

ng

extractor · Sep 29, 2009

The females are called hens? I learn something new every day!

packerbacker · Sep 30, 2009

Yep, females are hens and the males are bucks. Go figure. The females have a chicken name and the males have a deer name.

rginn · Sep 30, 2009

Cool pics, packerbacker. Typical redneck I am, I'm wonderin how can I hook them dudes? Do they have a snagging season there?

packerbacker · Sep 30, 2009

Sorry RGINN, no snagging in Calif.. You need to go to Alaska to legally snag salmon. As a matter of fact, you can't even legally fish for salmon this year in the Sacramento River and they have closed it off on the coast. You can still fish for them in the Trinty River but only bag one.
I've hooked salmon on roe (cured cluster of salmon eggs), on glo bugs (a replica of a single salmon egg made from yarn) and on flatfish or kwikfish lures with a sardine wrapper. (sardine wrapper is simply a fillet off a large sardine tied tightly to the bottom of a Flatfish or Kwikfish lure). A buddy of mine swears by the battery-operated blinking flatfish with a sardine wrapper early morning or early evening.