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Anybody ever heard of a co-nuck?
« on: October 14, 2004, 01:02:25 PM »

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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Re: Anybody ever heard of a co-nuck?
« Reply #2 on: October 14, 2004, 03:59:21 PM »

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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Re: Anybody ever heard of a co-nuck?
« Reply #3 on: October 14, 2004, 04:10:41 PM »

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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Re: Anybody ever heard of a co-nuck?
« Reply #4 on: October 14, 2004, 04:50:16 PM »

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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Re: Anybody ever heard of a co-nuck?
« Reply #5 on: October 14, 2004, 07:27:27 PM »

Some BC lakes were once stocked with splake,  according to Mussio Ventures.
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Re: Anybody ever heard of a co-nuck?
« Reply #6 on: October 15, 2004, 09:11:50 AM »

Caught some splake in Alice Lake, back in the day. Lazy little buggers, more sluggish than dolly's.
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