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#1 Will

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Posted 08 December 2014 - 12:25 PM

I was at an Erie trib this weekend and a guy showed me a pic of a chinook he'd caught in the morning. It was pretty dark, but not black and no white spots and in pretty decent shape overall. Does Erie just have a really late run?


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Posted 08 December 2014 - 02:48 PM

There will always be a few fish that run late/early.  I remember a photo from a couple years back of a chrome chinny being caught in Toronto in March.


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#3 Swing4Steel

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Posted 08 December 2014 - 03:01 PM

I didn't think erie had many chinnies?
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Posted 08 December 2014 - 03:28 PM

I saw 2 boots sitting in the bottom pool of ganny in the spring two years ago. It was wild. took a long time to accept the fact there were 2 salmon there, in April.


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#5 Will

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Posted 08 December 2014 - 03:33 PM

I didn't think erie had many chinnies?

I didn't think so either. But there was another one a bit upstream too...just a lot rougher looking. Apparently at least two ran this year!


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#6 NiagaraSteel

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Posted 08 December 2014 - 09:22 PM

Erie has a tiny run of salmon, guess the guy got a little lucky. I know in bigger water they'll run into november, but the ones I've seen have been far from chrome.
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Posted 10 December 2014 - 06:59 PM

Erie has only a few salmon. 


When you guys say march and april they are probably spring run salmon not late fall fish.
On Huron its not uncommon to catch salmon in the spring. They come in the feed and are often dime fresh chrome fish. Some river mouths do very well for them in the spring, I got some nice cohos this year. Probably happens to some extent on lake Ontario. 


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#8 TheSkyIsBlue

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Posted 10 December 2014 - 08:55 PM

He must have been one really lucky guy to catch a chinook now!


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Posted 11 December 2014 - 08:48 AM

Erie has only a few salmon. 


When you guys say march and april they are probably spring run salmon not late fall fish.
On Huron its not uncommon to catch salmon in the spring. They come in the feed and are often dime fresh chrome fish. Some river mouths do very well for them in the spring, I got some nice cohos this year. Probably happens to some extent on lake Ontario. 

Agreed. On the west coast. there are runs at different times of the year depending on the strain of the fish. I am guessing that at least some of this is related to genetic variations, which trigger their maturity and when to run. Our fish have west coast origins so I wouldn't be surprised if some of those genes are present in some of the fish here.


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#10 DitchWizard

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Posted 13 December 2014 - 11:29 AM

I shouldn't have said run, the spring salmon are not spawning. They are feeding and are as chrome as if you got them in a 100'. 

 

Actually I figured the spring salmon thing was common knowledge, Muskie, walleye, suckers and a ton of other fish can be caught around river mouths in the spring. I know a guy who was getting into Atlantics last year. 


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Posted 14 December 2014 - 11:52 AM

no  trouts today! but caught a grinch!!! wish you all a  merry christmas!![attachment=14701:10700662_10152522586446179_5


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Posted 14 December 2014 - 02:17 PM

no  trouts today! but caught a grinch!!! wish you all a  merry christmas!![attachment=14701:10700662_10152522586446179_5


Mid-December boot!!! Love it's headwear too.
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