Magwa Posted May 31, 2016 Report Share Posted May 31, 2016 Salmon season has been going on and it is up every morning at 2.30 am off to fish ,catch your fish , come home clean ,package, and get them in the refer. plus people coming and going staying here for weeks on end getting there fish , well it ended yesterday I slept in today and FOOK I am tired but my freezer is full.....and I am back Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shepp Posted May 31, 2016 Report Share Posted May 31, 2016 56 minutes ago, Magwa said: Salmon season has been going on and it is up every morning at 2.30 am off to fish ,catch your fish , come home clean ,package, and get them in the refer. plus people coming and going staying here for weeks on end getting there fish , well it ended yesterday I slept in today and FOOK I am tired but my freezer is full.....and I am back Sounds like a rough one buddy! Glad you had a good season Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sisco Posted May 31, 2016 Report Share Posted May 31, 2016 3 hours ago, Magwa said: Salmon season has been going on and it is up every morning at 2.30 am off to fish ,catch your fish , come home clean ,package, and get them in the refer. plus people coming and going staying here for weeks on end getting there fish , well it ended yesterday I slept in today and FOOK I am tired but my freezer is full.....and I am back I would feel sorry for you but with a freezer full of Idaho Salmon, you wouldn't deserve it. Congrats, sounds like a blast. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magwa Posted May 31, 2016 Author Report Share Posted May 31, 2016 The only thing that would make it better would be to have a huge blow em up shoot during Salmon season .. Hmmmmm maybe we need to rethink this ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sisco Posted May 31, 2016 Report Share Posted May 31, 2016 1 hour ago, Magwa said: The only thing that would make it better would be to have a huge blow em up shoot during Salmon season .. Hmmmmm maybe we need to rethink this ... I like the way you think. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sketch Posted June 1, 2016 Report Share Posted June 1, 2016 I wish i had your fishing blood magwa! I get a break for my once a year trip in a week and have a deadline the same day! Fhuck it im out!!! Enable ...errr!! Lets see some monster pics! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magwa Posted June 1, 2016 Author Report Share Posted June 1, 2016 Sketch you mean like this? Or this Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
392heminut Posted June 1, 2016 Report Share Posted June 1, 2016 Damn that's nice! What's the difference between the Idaho salmon and the salmon my son catches up in Juneau? Saltwater-freshwater? Jason tells me they have 3 kinds of salmon up there and one is regarded as junk and they don't keep them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shepp Posted June 2, 2016 Report Share Posted June 2, 2016 how do you prep them? Steak them? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sisco Posted June 2, 2016 Report Share Posted June 2, 2016 (edited) Nice lookin Chinooks Magwa. Lots of good eating there. Which dam is that behind you? Hemi, Chum salmon are the junk ones. The Inuit keep them and smoke them for dog food for their teams. So do a lot of back country people. Sockeye, Coho and Chinooks are the good stuff. Edited June 2, 2016 by Sisco Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sketch Posted June 2, 2016 Report Share Posted June 2, 2016 geeze take it easy brother your back!! thats awesome!! I would slap my self silly for the fight! And you get to do it every year? Like that? wow !! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magwa Posted June 2, 2016 Author Report Share Posted June 2, 2016 there is no difference in the fish from Alaska and the fish in Idaho they both come from the ocean these fish are spring Kings or Chinooks the best eating of the lot as far as I am concerned, and Idaho is the furthest place from the ocean to have it's own historical run over 400 miles from the ocean that is Dworshak dam the only dam on the Clearwater river Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magwa Posted June 2, 2016 Author Report Share Posted June 2, 2016 Oh and as to prepping them I fillet and skin them and remove the pin bones and I use a hamburger basket the kind that has two halves that close together with a long handle and cook them on the BBQ with different seasonings we also can some ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sisco Posted June 2, 2016 Report Share Posted June 2, 2016 (edited) Magwa, Idaho is the only place I would ever consider moving. Wife's grandfather used to have a cabin on Alturas creek outside Stanley. At that point the Chinooks had swam 938 miles up river. By then they were so beat up and coated with fungus, you really didn't want to eat them. Fun to watch them spawn, though. Pictures below date from 1983. Two shapes in the middle of the second picture are a male and female spawning. Frank Church got a bill passed forcing him and a few others to sell his cabin to the Federal Government even though it was on pasture land and not even close to the Sawtooth Wilderness. . Edited June 2, 2016 by Sisco Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shepp Posted June 2, 2016 Report Share Posted June 2, 2016 2 hours ago, Magwa said: Oh and as to prepping them I fillet and skin them and remove the pin bones and I use a hamburger basket the kind that has two halves that close together with a long handle and cook them on the BBQ with different seasonings we also can some ... I need to learn how to fillet big fish..... I been steaking the ones we catch on Lake Michigan. side note went fishing Monday with my buddy on the Rock River. We were casting for bass catching some smallies and hammer handle pike, but my highlight was having about a 40" musky follow my spinner bait to the boat. Never had that happen to me before, it was soooooo cool. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sisco Posted June 2, 2016 Report Share Posted June 2, 2016 For fileting them, Magwa has it right. Need a sharp knife and make an incision along the pin bones on either side slanting up towards the top of the filet and almost all the way to the skin, then remove the strip of meat with the pin bones in it.. Some people instead use a serrated grip needle nose pliers to pull them out one at a time. That works, and leaves more meat, but you have to keep cleaning the tip to get a grip, and it's tedious. Some restaurants in New York will have a specialist who does that every afternoon to the Salmon they are serving that night. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magwa Posted June 3, 2016 Author Report Share Posted June 3, 2016 LOL I use a box cutter the kind with a 4 inch long blade 3/8th wide with segments all along it so when it gets dull you just break off a segment and you have a new sharp blade I slit the skin from tail to peck fin by the head a 14 inch deep then slit from tail to head then from head to peck fin and last accross the tail then grab the skin with pliers by the head where the two cuts come together and peel the whole skin off towards the tail, then open the box knife all the way the blade is very flexible and fillet from head to tail sliding the blade accross the rib bones till the whole fillet comes off then flip the fish over and repeat... I need to make a video ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shepp Posted June 3, 2016 Report Share Posted June 3, 2016 2 minutes ago, Magwa said: LOL I use a box cutter the kind with a 4 inch long blade 3/8th wide with segments all along it so when it gets dull you just break off a segment and you have a new sharp blade I slit the skin from tail to peck fin by the head a 14 inch deep then slit from tail to head then from head to peck fin and last accross the tail then grab the skin with pliers by the head where the two cuts come together and peel the whole skin off towards the tail, then open the box knife all the way the blade is very flexible and fillet from head to tail sliding the blade accross the rib bones till the whole fillet comes off then flip the fish over and repeat... I need to make a video ... I'd be interested in seeing that Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sisco Posted June 3, 2016 Report Share Posted June 3, 2016 18 hours ago, Magwa said: LOL I use a box cutter the kind with a 4 inch long blade 3/8th wide with segments all along it so when it gets dull you just break off a segment and you have a new sharp blade I slit the skin from tail to peck fin by the head a 14 inch deep then slit from tail to head then from head to peck fin and last accross the tail then grab the skin with pliers by the head where the two cuts come together and peel the whole skin off towards the tail, then open the box knife all the way the blade is very flexible and fillet from head to tail sliding the blade accross the rib bones till the whole fillet comes off then flip the fish over and repeat... I need to make a video ... I would too always interested in learning a better way Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magwa Posted June 4, 2016 Author Report Share Posted June 4, 2016 the season is over I will have to get a fish from someone to make a video with let me see what I can do....taking a pistol course this weekend..... :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
392heminut Posted June 5, 2016 Report Share Posted June 5, 2016 On 6/2/2016 at 9:15 PM, Sisco said: Nice lookin Chinooks Magwa. Lots of good eating there. Which dam is that behind you? Hemi, Chum salmon are the junk ones. The Inuit keep them and smoke them for dog food for their teams. So do a lot of back country people. Sockeye, Coho and Chinooks are the good stuff. There you go! Sockeye and Coho are what I remember him talking about. That is amazing that those fish will swim that far inland! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
98Z5V Posted June 25, 2016 Report Share Posted June 25, 2016 On 5/31/2016 at 5:22 AM, Magwa said: Salmon season has been going on and it is up every morning at 2.30 am off to fish ,catch your fish , come home clean ,package, and get them in the refer. plus people coming and going staying here for weeks on end getting there fish , well it ended yesterday I slept in today and FOOK I am tired but my freezer is full.....and I am back You, brother, are my hero. One day, I will fish with you. Oh, and we'll shoot, too! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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