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Commentary: Rare and royal salmon

Posted by: Aqua Blog Maven on December 7, 2009 at 6:16 am

From the Eureka Times-Standard, this commentary:

“Salmon season just didn’t turn out like it was supposed to. In fact, when I go to drop a line tomorrow, Saturday, I’ll be gunning for Pacific halibut unless something really unusual happens. Assuming that the salmon don’t arrive in droves by the end of the season this week, it will have been two years since I’ve landed a king salmon.

It never used to take many salmon to make me happy. As a newcomer here in 2000, when we were allowed to keep only one king salmon per day, I was overjoyed at just a few fish in a summer. A fillet of a good-sized fish was a lot of really good food.

When we were allowed to keep two fish a day, I developed a sizable stack of salmon in my freezer. I traded it for elk and ducks and whatever else my nonfishing friends had. After a couple of years, I found myself getting a little greedy, feeling anxious whenever my two fish weren’t yet in the bottom of the boat.

Then, last year, when the feds shut down salmon season altogether, I felt a different anxiety. … “

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December 7, 2009 · Filed Under Northern California, Salmon

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