1st Kings of the season

nwdave

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• Jun 26, 2011

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dnvrdv said:

Thanks for the idea for Horsdevours for August.  I see man candy for the guests before the meat is done.  Now where do I catch a salmon in Colorado?

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Well, if you wait long enough there may be a couple or three of sockeye coming your way. 
 

 

dnvrdv

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• Jun 26, 2011

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How did I know I would get your attention?  I've heard of snagging Sockeye out of Green mountain, but thats not till late September.

 

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Well, if you wait long enough there may be a couple or three of sockeye coming your way. 
 

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• Jun 27, 2011

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Wow! All I can say is Damn!! 

How long did you smoke it for? What temp? What type of wood? 

You have set the bar for me!

 

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• Jun 27, 2011

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Beautiful!

 

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• Jun 27, 2011

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Pittman said:

Wow! All I can say is Damn!! 

How long did you smoke it for? What temp? What type of wood? 

You have set the bar for me!

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Thanks sir!!

I dry brined for 6 hours;  water rinsed lightly and then patted dry with towels and air dried for 14 hours;  I smoked with maple, and cherry with a touch of hickory for a total of 17 hours--did two seperate smoke batches.

Was an alllll weedend ordeal and so well worth every sleepless minute of it!!

Rich

 

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• Jun 27, 2011

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OH  and the temp was 95-110 consistent all the way through..

Rich

 

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• Jul 6, 2011

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As long as I'm here, I'm gonna bump this Awesome Thread.

There has to be a lot of people who haven't seen it, and would like to.

As for myself, I keep coming back to gaze at the pictures.

Even though all the pics look great, my favorite is the first one !!!

Thanks Rich,

Bear

 

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• Jul 10, 2011

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Very kind of you to say so BC--Thanks,

Rich

 

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• Jul 11, 2011

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Someone asked about smoking Salmon the other day. I hope they saw this post.

 

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• Aug 4, 2011

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Well ...now I know what I am doing with the kings in my freezer!

Truely A-MAZE-N Lookin Salmon!

Thanks you other Crazy Ol' Bear!

SOB

 

jonboat

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• Aug 23, 2011

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Great pictorial to go with those nice fish. We got some on a Lake Ontario charter, but next up is the fall run.  I plan to troll in the 50 - 80 foot of water range here in about two weeks when they start staging, then come late September, early October, we'll be in the Salmon River and Oswego River catching them.



Those pictures have me chomping at the bit to get after the fall Kings in Ontario!!! I think the one your wife got is bigger than they get in Ontario.



Here are the ones a group of us got on a recent charter (there's one coho in the mix):

 

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bosmech

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• Nov 21, 2012

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This is one great thread, man do I miss the Pacific NorthWest and the Salmon.