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Re: What is Your "Holy Grail" Species in Freshwater? [Re: ftabangler13] #6354878 07/01/11 11:50 AM
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Re: What is Your "Holy Grail" Species in Freshwater? [Re: Big Red 12] #6354916 07/01/11 12:08 PM
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Re: What is Your "Holy Grail" Species in Freshwater? [Re: roadtrip] #6355016 07/01/11 12:49 PM
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King Salmon or steelhead trout. Fished for both while I lived in AK as a kid and never caught either. Caught 3 of 5 salmon but never a king.

Re: What is Your "Holy Grail" Species in Freshwater? [Re: ssj3goten] #6355205 07/01/11 01:51 PM
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Re: What is Your "Holy Grail" Species in Freshwater? [Re: ssj3goten] #6356553 07/01/11 07:32 PM
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Originally Posted By: ssj3goten
King Salmon or steelhead trout. Fished for both while I lived in AK as a kid and never caught either. Caught 3 of 5 salmon but never a king.


Does anybody know the thing about using your fingers to remember the 5 kinds of Salmon? It's one of the useless trivia things. I remember the ring finger is for steelhead (ring = steel), middle finger is for king (its the biggest), pinky is for pink. Can't remeber the thumb or index.

Re: What is Your "Holy Grail" Species in Freshwater? [Re: cypher_orange] #6356911 07/01/11 09:36 PM
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Originally Posted By: cypher_orange
Originally Posted By: ssj3goten
King Salmon or steelhead trout. Fished for both while I lived in AK as a kid and never caught either. Caught 3 of 5 salmon but never a king.


Does anybody know the thing about using your fingers to remember the 5 kinds of Salmon? It's one of the useless trivia things. I remember the ring finger is for steelhead (ring = steel), middle finger is for king (its the biggest), pinky is for pink. Can't remeber the thumb or index.


You're pretty close!! You had the pinky and middle spot-on and you were on the right track with the ring.

Steelhead is actually a trout, not a salmon. It's a sea-run Rainbow.

Pinky = Pink (duh!)
Thumb = Chum (rhymes)
Index = Sockeye (like you're going to poke someone in the eye)
Middle = Chinook, or the King salmon (it's the biggest finger and the Chinook is the King)
Ring = Coho, or the Silver salmon (Rings are usually silver in color and the Coho has silvery scales)

Re: What is Your "Holy Grail" Species in Freshwater? [Re: Big Red 12] #6356974 07/01/11 09:58 PM
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Go north,(mn,wi,mi) should take about a day on the water.

Re: What is Your "Holy Grail" Species in Freshwater? [Re: cypher_orange] #6356977 07/01/11 10:01 PM
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50" muskie for me, got a 46" wifes got a 48", as for largemouth I got my dd last year on choke.

Re: What is Your "Holy Grail" Species in Freshwater? [Re: 620T] #6357479 07/02/11 01:26 AM
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800lb. Tiger Shark. I just want one tooth.

Re: What is Your "Holy Grail" Species in Freshwater? [Re: Bittercreek] #6357489 07/02/11 01:29 AM
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800lb. Tiger Shark. I just want one tooth.
Sorry. Just read again its for Freshwater.
10lb. Rainbow Trout. Out of a running Stream on a Mepps-Spinner.


Re: What is Your "Holy Grail" Species in Freshwater? [Re: Bittercreek] #6357515 07/02/11 01:36 AM
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No prob. I made one on the Saltwater page too...so hit it up.

Re: What is Your "Holy Grail" Species in Freshwater? [Re: Bittercreek] #6357616 07/02/11 02:06 AM
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Re: What is Your "Holy Grail" Species in Freshwater? [Re: Bittercreek] #6357992 07/02/11 05:18 AM
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800lb. Tiger Shark. I just want one tooth.
Sorry. Just read again its for Freshwater.
10lb. Rainbow Trout. Out of a running Stream on a Mepps-Spinner.


More than possible! I got mine on a black and yellow Panther Martin in a tributary of the Snake river in NE Idaho... when I was 12 years old. I still remember the day like it was yesterday. It went 10lb 3 oz and may have been the best tasting Rainbow I will ever eat! wink I wish my folks would have mounted it for me, but with a bunch of 8's and a few 9's under my belt by that time as well, I guess that wasn't much of a big deal. Man, how I miss the river/stream trout fishing!

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Caught a huge redbreast and have been trying to get one as big ever since. Fish was over 12". Also bluegill over 2.5 and redear over 3. Guad bass over 16". And, of course, DD bass.


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Re: What is Your "Holy Grail" Species in Freshwater? [Re: Bittercreek] #6358150 07/02/11 10:39 AM
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If it floats, flys, or f___s it is always cheaper to rent!

You have to decide which is more important.
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