Identify This Salmon?

Post by **CLofchik** » Tue Jul 29, 2008 10:27 pm

Right, I'm 100% this a juvenile chinook.
Others are not.

Post by **bm_attar** » Tue Jul 29, 2008 10:31 pm

Looks like a Cisco.

Post by **FishingIsHealing** » Wed Jul 30, 2008 2:48 am

Don't know what it is from that picture.

At first I thought it was a lake herring! hahaha...

but it has Salmon traits.

the head is a salmon head as far as I can tell so it must be a Salmon...

The tail is weird though. Not as an adult Salmons tail is.......usually they aren't as forked....

Not sure what type it is.....

hmmm........

Post by **steve-hamilton** » Wed Jul 30, 2008 6:31 am

to me, it looks like a chinook.

you have to understand, your last question was posed on a board with a million arm chair know-it-all fisherman. the one person who posted an atlantic, and someone said it was a brown, had me spitting coffee on my screen here at work.

have no worries. just keep fishing.

however, your INSANE for posting a pier report this early in the year. but thats for the other pier anglers to worry about.

Post by **Todd B.** » Wed Jul 30, 2008 7:32 am

I'd have to go with a Cisco as well. The forked tail is a clear indication that it is not a salmon.

Post by **almontefisher** » Wed Jul 30, 2008 7:58 am

Yeah the tail is way to forked for a salmon...But I do not know...Maybe a cisco

Post by **Jimmy_1** » Wed Jul 30, 2008 8:16 am

That would have to be a salmon. I know the tail is forked, but that could be the result of injury/deformity etc.

Here is a pic of a Cisco. Doesn't even look the same.

http://images.google.ca/imgres?imgurl=h ... %26hl%3Den

Post by **steve-hamilton** » Wed Jul 30, 2008 8:31 am

cisco?

Post by **almontefisher** » Wed Jul 30, 2008 8:31 am

Now that I see James pic I do see the difference...So is this a deformation then??? If it was from Lake Ontario then it could be all the sewage that they dump into it

...Maybe it is a drum

Post by **slop** » Wed Jul 30, 2008 9:03 am

Coho.

Identification would be alot easier if we were able to look inside the mouth of the fish.

Post by **Mike P** » Wed Jul 30, 2008 9:04 am

If that is a cisco than I guess that is what I was catching in BC for 15 years

Chinook but the pic is not the best,would be able to tell better by mouth

Post by **uberfish** » Wed Jul 30, 2008 9:31 am

agree with mouth shot for id. if it has black gums and tongue it's a chinook. that said I'm sure it is a chinook. sub-adult chinook have deeply forked tails and the tail squares up as it grows.
this picture is of a yearling chinook but gives the general idea.
http://www.fpc.org/bon_jda/Pictures/CH0-2.jpg