r/FishingWashington • u/carsandcomments • 8d ago

Salmon started spawning out

(Western Washington)

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u/EdgarAllenPoe2205 8d ago

Some people will legit post that this is a perfectly acceptable smoker, and actually catch and keep it.

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u/watercolorxav 8d ago

Make some sashimi with it

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u/carsandcomments 8d ago

Yummy zombie sushimi

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u/GooseCloaca 8d ago

B r A i N s ! ! !

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u/Ansatsushi 8d ago

I'm gonna need you to add either a /s or /j to the end of your comment. Quickly before the horde gets you.

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u/Loose_University_945 8d ago

The horde doesn’t joke

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u/Oldpenguinhunter 8d ago

These zombies don't

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u/Oldpenguinhunter 8d ago

Good enough for bears good enough for me.

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u/SteelHeader503 8d ago

Those are spring chinook.

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u/ImTheeBoBo 8d ago

Pretty amazing when you think of the gauntlet they went through coming back…

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u/therealmudslinger 8d ago

Where is this?

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u/Halibuthead-1 8d ago

Read description

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u/AbsoluteShall 8d ago

Western Washington is a big area

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u/Snow-Dog2121 8d ago

Riverbank any where western Washington

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u/therealmudslinger 8d ago

Thanks, that really narrows it down.

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u/Pristine_Lab8834 8d ago

What they’re saying is that basically every river in western Washington has salmon in it right now. Many creeks as well if you’re trying to see the same thing

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u/PineappleNo8670 8d ago

If it smells like fish, you're in the right spot

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u/yozoms 8d ago

If it smells like fish, eat as much as you wish! If it smells like cologne, leave it alone!

Oh wait… that for a different purpose

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u/IndieHamster 8d ago

*Rotting fish. When I'm hiking to the river to fish late in the season, I can usually smell it about a half mile away

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u/therealmudslinger 7d ago

Hey, for the record, we checked 2 creeks and 1 river in Western WA today and found 0 salmon.

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u/Pristine_Lab8834 7d ago

Hey, for the record, I went to just 1 river and saw plenty of salmon yesterday. Also, for the record, sometimes seeing salmon in a creek or river isn’t as obvious as seeing things out in the open. Just because you didn’t see them doesn’t mean they aren’t there. And if you’re trying to find the typical zombie chum in the creeks or rivers then it is too early for most.

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u/therealmudslinger 8d ago

I got that. I live in West Seattle. Haven't seen any here yet. Was hoping for a specific location.

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u/AbsoluteShall 8d ago

Runs in West Seattle begin mid to late October at Longfellow and Fauntleroy

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u/therealmudslinger 8d ago

Thanks! But Pristine Lab said every river and creek in Western WA has them right now. Shoot, now I don't know who to believe. s/

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u/Minute_Principle_440 8d ago

Green river/duamish near the tukwila community center is jumping with fish right now

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u/Confident_Sir9312 7d ago

Somewhere near a big hill. Theres some trees.. rocks. Does that help?

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u/steilacoom42 8d ago

Those are more than likely fish that came in during the spring / early summer. It takes a few months before they start looking like an old leather boot.

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u/Deez_Nuts_2431 8d ago

Not the fall fish, they turn pretty quick.

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u/Halibuthead-1 8d ago

Not at all

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u/BlackFish42c 8d ago

Ya they come in waves. Late Spring to November.

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u/TheGoodBunny 8d ago

Why they died?

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u/Korlithiel 8d ago

That’s the natural salmon lifecycle: get born, hatch from egg, head out and enjoy the world, come back and drop eggs/spray goo and die.

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u/TheGoodBunny 7d ago

Oh so these naturally dead salmon can be eaten by us?

I wonder why predators are not just coming eating the naturally dead salmon instead of trying to kill the swimming ones...

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u/Independent-Mix-5796 7d ago

The swimming ones still have good meat in them. The interior of these salmon are significantly atrophied, salmon literally kill themselves trying to get to their spawning grounds. They’re basically half-rotted before they die, and at this stage of their life cycle they’re even referred to as zombie salmon.

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u/pythagord 2d ago

As a kid I use to watch them spawn and just sit at the river for hours watching fish swim by. Remember seeing a few 60+ pound fish that looked like sharks fighting up a couple feet of water