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[CohoJake]

I wonder what environmental conditions caused a few select populations to favor fish that were 6 and 7 years old (and hence huge)? The "June Hogs" in the Columbia traveled a very long way to their spawning grounds, over some pretty heavy whitewater, so maybe it was only the biggest and strongest that could survive there, but as for the Kenai and the Wannock? Neither of these rivers are long (the Wannock is short). Is it a lack of predation that caused bigger fish to be favored there? It is a shame that the giant Columbia fish were lost forever when Grand Coulee dam was built.

[wildmanyeah]

A couple theories of bigger salmon i have read is larger spawning gravels and irriatic low/high flow conditions causing extended staging times.

[redside1]

at one time when chinooks were plentiful in the Fraser the largest ones went to Tete Jaune Cache. Average spawning size was in the low 50lb range.
A friend of mine did a report for DFO in the 1970's documenting this.
pretty much all gone now though.

[roeman]

at one time when chinooks were plentiful in the Fraser the largest ones went to Tete Jaune Cache. Average spawning size was in the low 50lb range.
A friend of mine did a report for DFO in the 1970's documenting this.
pretty much all gone now though.

Gill nets are a wonderful thing!!
Bass and crappie fishing on Hatzic lake is where we are headed

[RalphH]

chinook salmon waiting to jump Reauguard Falls on the Fraser North east of Valemont;


how big is that? the dorsal fin sticks up like a shark's.