More Salmon to smoke

[cmayna]

Here I am today with a Chinook (king) that I caught off the California coast, a couple hours south of San Francisco. Wife and I got limits (2 each).

 

[smokerjim]

nice, bet that will be tasty!

 

[JLeonard]

Good looking fish. He make ya work much to get him on the boat?
Jim

 

[SKade]

That looks great. My dad use to go salmon fishing once a year before we moved out of New England. Wouldn’t get any king over on the east coast but I remember him holding up fish that were bigger than me. To this day I still can’t breakdown a fish because he made it look so easy. He’d say you just do this than this than this and show me. I would think that’s not so hard. Little did I know.

 

[pushok2018]

That's a nice ketch! Congrats! I am sure it will be great smoked.... I wish I had the same to smoke but am going to my local Safeway supermarket tomorrow morning to get farm raised $5.99 per pound salmon to hot smoke it on Tuesday....

 

[daspyknows]

Nice fish. Gonna make some tasty smoked salmon.

 

[Winterrider]

Looks like a beauty . Congrats to you and the Mrs.

 

[cmayna]

Thanks all. Sorry for the late reply for I was still on the boat when I started the post. Finally, I'm back on land. I brought in 4 of these monsters but could only keep 2 for the limit. Gave one to the wife to make her limit. Gave the 4th one to another fishing buddy. So wife and I are happy with our limits. Going to leave the fish on ice for the night and tomorrow we will process and vacuum seal them.

I must say, feeding all the people and crew some of my smoked Salmon and smoked Ling Cod really put a smile on their faces. That made me very happy.

 

[sandyut]

Now thats FRESH! Nice catch - looks like some tasty eats for sure.

 

[cmayna]

Now thats FRESH! Nice catch - looks like some tasty eats for sure.

Thanks. One of the fun parts of yesterday was twice I was in the galley preparing food to share when the rod went off. Once I ran out when people were yelling my name. Another time, I yelled to my wife to go and grab the rod for me: " Honey, I'm busy making foods! You bring the monsta in for me....please!!"

Craig

 

[mneeley490]

Very nice! Kings have been scarce up here in Puget Sound for the last few years. We have some pods of resident orcas, and that's all they will eat.