Fishing with Rod Discussion Forum
Fishing in British Columbia => General Discussion => Topic started by: Redeye on October 14, 2004, 01:02:25 PM
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So has anybody here ever heard or seen a co-nuck? I remeber there was a big thing about it a while back because fishermen down by the coast of Oregon were catching salmon that they called the co-nuck, but when they got to shore, fisheries there nailed them with a fine for keeping wild coho.
The fisherman claimed the fish to be a cross breed between cohos and chinooks. I think fisheries there were planning to do some testing on the fish but then I lost track of the story.
I'm not sure of all the details myself. but was just wondering if anybody else has ever heard of such a thing. Could it be a jack spring they are talking about??? ???
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Here's a link:
http://www.mailtribune.com/archive/2003/0904/sport/stories/02sport.htm
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I heard of something else called a "pinook" (pink/chinook), I heard that they occur naturally in some rivers north of the BC border (Alaska), or something like that.
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Cool post Redeye, never heard of a co-nuck though. I have heard of those pinooks though. A great lakes anomoly where pinks supposedly mated with chinook. I'm not sure if this was an April fools day fishing show I saw it on.
They caught lots of these little guys(2-6 lbs) & they looked very much like chinook jacks. The interesting part (as told by the narrarator) was that all the specimens were male & thought to be infertile. Me thinks those easterners were just being introduced to a large run of spring jacks. Any eastern input?
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Never heard 'em...caught Chinook and Coho in Lake Ontario and Erie , how about Splake though? These one I have caught in Ontario...ministry creation...mix between lake trout and speckled trout.
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Some BC lakes were once stocked with splake, according to Mussio Ventures.
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Caught some splake in Alice Lake, back in the day. Lazy little buggers, more sluggish than dolly's.