This extremely off-course sockeye salmon turned up in Northern California’s Trinity this fall…only about 500 miles off course…
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Exotic Species
Poor ol’ grayling…they just don’t get much respect in Alaska.
And it’s no wonder, with all the other glamour species up there to chase around like mouse-eating, leopard rainbows, giant kings, leaping coho and barndoor halibut. But, these distant cousins of the whitefish, the so-called “Sailfish of the North,” have some worthy qualities.
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Here in the U.S., we don’t have too much in the way of sea-run brown trout. There are, of course, lake-run brownies in tribs of the Great Lakes, a few remaining creeks on the East Coast and one isolated population in a river in along the West Coast that shall remain nameless.
I’m pretty fascinated by them, however. What’s not to like about a fish that can get as big as a Chinook and has an appetite for meat on par with a striped bass?
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How’s this for bizarre? A very lost coho salmon was recently taken by an angler in the River Meuse (Maas) in the Netherlands.
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Warning…this is damn disturbing and may keep you awake at night!
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On your next trip to Africa, you may want to keep all your limbs inside the boat at all times…
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Okay, here’s a Name that Fish contest entry that I don’t even know the answer to. I caught this odd, blue-eyed fella near the bottom in Icy Strait, Alaska last summer while mooching a herring for silvers and don’t have a clue what it is.
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Redfish (red drum) are an extremely popular gamefish along the Gulf Coast but most folks are unaware that these awesome battlers can also be found in many freshwater lakes across the southern U.S.
Freshwater reds? Yep…and they are extremely cool! How can you beat a fish that can reach 40 pounds, fights like a crazed devil dog and tastes incredible?
So, how the heck does a saltwater fish survive in freshwater? Well, that’s a good question and I won’t totally bore you with the details. In short, reds are tough bastards and can be raised in salt and then, after being slowly acclimated to freshwater, live happily in a lake (though they cannot reproduce in freshwater).
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