massive salmon found in cali

[Amby 490]

Wildlife officials in northern California last week came across one of the biggest Chinook salmon ever found in the state — a monster more than 4 feet long and weighing 85 pounds.

"We see lots of big ones," Doug Killam, a biologist in the California Department of Fish and Game's Red Bluff office, told the Redding Record Searchlight, "but this one was just bigger than most big ones — it was just spectacular."

The big fish had recently spawned and died, Killam said, and probably weighed about 90 pounds when it began its 100-mile swim upstream from the Pacific to the spot where it died on Battle Creek, a tributary of the Sacramento River near the town of Anderson.

The California sport-fishing record for a Chinook salmon is 88 pounds. In Alaska, where they're called king salmon, they get even bigger — the record sport catch is 97 pounds, while the largest commercial catch was a truly phenomenal 126 pounds.

"If someone would have caught this one, it probably would have been a state record," Killam told the Record Searchlight.

Ironically, the sad state of salmon spawning in the Pacific Northwest probably helped this one live a full life. Ocean commercial catches were canceled this year, and the river sport season on the Sacramento drastically shortened.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,446686,00.html

[EstebanTrabajos 7]

YUM YUM

Let's cook it!

[mkg265 2]

That's a lot of lox. Where's the cream cheese and bagels?

[Nagishkaw 510]

0i !

[MissStacey 1]

It is freaky looking.

[Peikko 1,575]

Wow! Yeah, a big fish - sad his time had come

[Amby 490]

It is freaky looking.

I know