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fish was about 5lbs.... Could be a late run small chinny hen, coho chinny hybrid, pinook.... but I highly doubt a sockeye or any other salmonid hybrid...
Just thought i'd share my strangest catch this season, silverish salmon in nov?
 
everything comes in the rivers now. there is bass, pike, carp, salmonids. you name it. it is a chinook for sure though. they can't interbreed. just like foxes and dogs can't but they are same family. again though just to make better species MNR does lot of testing, it just might be new strain of something. but like humans not all fish look the same. it could be a minor mutation 1 in millions.
 
Klik said:
everything comes in the rivers now. there is bass, pike, carp, salmonids. you name it. it is a chinook for sure though. they can't interbreed. just like foxes and dogs can't but they are same family. again though just to make better species MNR does lot of testing, it just might be new strain of something. but like humans not all fish look the same. it could be a minor mutation 1 in millions.
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A lot of species can be genetically cross bread by hatcheries, even salmon and a rainbow called "skamania" as an example .. I think your right though, it is just a late run mini hen Chinook..
 
Early2Rise said:
Seriously??...t is 2 different pics
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it looks the same, see that twig near the bottom its in the same spot in relation to the first pic, unless nothing moved what so ever and you landed the fish in the same position its the same fish imo
 
It looks like a pinook because of the tail. That looks like a pink salmon tail. We catch pinks here like sunfish. Pinkooks exist for sure. Great catch!

Here are some reference photos. The chrome one is ocean caught while the other two have been in the river a bit,

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Check out the tails
 
Early2Rise said:
darn AKnook you are living the dream out there eh.. nice fish!
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Thats what I say to my self all the time. I love fishing here and it is amazing, but I want an atlantic, brown and a brook trout! Never caught them so seeing them posted here sure gets me pumped up to when I visit home again to catch some.
 
Thats what I say to my self all the time. I love fishing here and it is amazing, but I want an atlantic, brown and a brook trout! Never caught them so seeing them posted here sure gets me pumped up to when I visit home again to catch some.
we can trade anytime lol you can come here for steel and Brown's and I'll go up there and fish the epic salmon runs ;)
 
Early2Rise said:
A lot of species can be genetically cross bread by hatcheries, even salmon and a rainbow called "skamania" as an example .. I think your right though, it is just a late run mini hen Chinook..
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Skamania is not a salmon x rainbow hybrid. Skamania is a summer-run steelhead that was developed by a hatchery.

Many salmonids can hybridize, although the frequency of such hybridization is greatly reduced since the different species of salmon has slightly offsetted spawning periods, but certainly, overlaps do occur and hybrids do exist in the wild. Natural pinooks exist in the St. Mary's and not uncommonly caught.
 
I'm pretty sure that's a Pinook, but I'll try to get it confirmed just in case.
 

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