Are these both salmon or is one a brown?
Are these both salmon or is one a brown?
Caught these guys last night. Thinking the one with more speckles on the bottom (2.2lbs) is a younger salmon and the one with fewer speckles on top (2.6lbs) is an older one? What do folks think? The top fish rocketed to the surface immediately after hitting the down rigger and danced all the way in with multiple runs as it got close to the boat.
Thanks!
Thanks!
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Re: Are these both salmon or is one a brown?
Look like salmon to me. Salmon tail fins have that v shape, browns have a more vertical profile when swimming through the water horizontally, not much notch if any.
Nice catch.
Nice catch.
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Re: Are these both salmon or is one a brown?
Top fish is definitely a LLS. To me, bottom fish looks like a steelhead, with spotted tail and iridescent body.
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Re: Are these both salmon or is one a brown?
They both look like Landlocks to me
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Re: Are these both salmon or is one a brown?
Looks like 2 salmon to me, probably have just been hanging around different areas. They will take in the color of their surroundings some.t
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Re: Are these both salmon or is one a brown?
looks like a salmon to me and a steelehead on bottom not the same heads or spots on them . steelheads have that short stubby head.
Re: Are these both salmon or is one a brown?
salmon, both....
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Definitely both salmon.....
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Both are salmon....
Re: Are these both salmon or is one a brown?
Thank you for all the responses! Seems like they are both salmon maybe in different parts of their life cycle and maybe from different areas of the lake, even though I caught them both the same place. Almost every salmon that I have caught this year has been off a sliding cheater. This one from yesterday hit it and then zoomed to the surface immediately so I then had to reel like crazy to get the cheater all the way back down.
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Re: Are these both salmon or is one a brown?
Both are salmon. That's the beauty of Landlocks in spot patterns. Some are loaded, and some have very few. All depends on their parents.