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Post by Dunbar on May 10, 2006 5:58:09 GMT -5
2 more questions, sorry guys. Can a grilse return to the river, go back to sea as a kelt and then return again? If so is he still a grilse? Also, are there Salmon that never migrate, if so what are they called? Last one, Do still water Salmon have a different name? About 4% of Atlantic salmon survive to spawn more than once - all female. If one of these was a grilse when it first ran, when it returns it will be a MSW salmon. Interestingly multi-spawners are not often big salmon for their age, they lose too much condition spawning to make huge progress in growth. There is a race of landlocked atlantic salmon in NE USA and Canada which lives in lakes and migrates up feeder streams to spawn, it does not grow very big, the record is around 6lbs. These are called ouananiche or sebago salmon depending on where there are. Some species of pacific salmon have been stocked into the Great Lakes in the USA and along with some rainbow trout, treat the lakes as the sea and run the rivers to spawn each autumn. I think marine survival of salmon exceeded 10% in the 60s - hence many old-timers harking back to the good old days. I think that period of high survival was relatively unusual and coincided with a phenomenon in the North Atlantic known as the 'gadoid outburst', resulting in much improved feeding conditions for salmon, as well as other favourable oceanographic conditions sitting in the salmon's favour at that time.
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underwood
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If you look close enough you can see me landing my personal best Grayling. Just before falling in!
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Post by underwood on May 16, 2006 5:32:32 GMT -5
hello again, what do you think I'd be looking at for 2 days salmon fishing on a decent river in Scotland or Wales? I'd also need to hire a salmon rod too I guess with reel and some shrimpy looking flies. Any ideas anyone?
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