Great Indicators for fishing to come .

    This photo is from the micro-trolling I've been doing for salmon research .  The program is called Operation Bottleneck, administered by the BC Conservation Foundation, for the Pacific Salmon Foundation.  We are fishing to DNA sample, PIT tag ( install an tiny electronic tag) , measure and release chinook salmon in their first winter at sea. 

  This is an extreme catch. The gear is mini- sized flashers and spoons , fished 6 rigs per side on the downriggers.   Here are 11 fish from 12 hooks .   6 are young cohos , which will be real sport fish by spring or summer.  5 are juvenile chinooks, but they are a year older and bigger than the ones we are looking for .  So, none of these are exactly what we are looking for in this research.  But, Golly these are great indicators for the near future of salmon fishing in our area.