| Are you planning to go fishing for salmon? If you are | | | | pacific salmon species have different life cycle and |
| and you are one of the beginners or first-timers, | | | | each returns to their fresh water spawning grounds |
| there are basic things you need to know to get you | | | | at different times. When salmon returns to the rivers |
| started and to help you enjoy this enjoyable outdoor | | | | where they're from, they are collectively called run |
| activity. | | | | that is, in turn, named after the river. So, if you hear |
| First off, there are several species of salmon that | | | | the word run or runs, you know what it means. |
| you should know about before you go fishing for | | | | Due to the fact that salmon always come back to |
| salmon trips. There are Atlantic and Pacific salmons. | | | | where they hatched, you know when the ideal times |
| Atlantic species are from the Atlantic Ocean, as the | | | | are to go fishing for salmon or mostly called fishing |
| name implies. Also, you can find a wide variety of | | | | season and you know there will always be salmon to |
| salmon in the various lakes that are in the eastern | | | | catch. This is why many fishermen became |
| North America areas. They are the kind of salmon | | | | fascinated with fishing, whether as hobby, sport or |
| that don't immigrate as they prefer fresh water than | | | | pastime. |
| salt water. | | | | Fishing for salmon requires bait. There are various |
| The most popular of all salmons are the Chinook or | | | | types of baits that you cause in fishing for salmon. |
| king salmon or spring salmon, black mouth, however | | | | There are plugs, worms, lures, and flies in which you |
| you call them, as they are the biggest among the | | | | can use for fresh water salmon; for salt water, you |
| salmon species, weighing between 25 to 65 pounds, | | | | can go for flies, streamers, crustaceans, and lures. |
| or even more. They are found from southern | | | | Fly fishing for salmon will require you to have 12-16 ft. |
| California coast to the Bering Strait. Alaska has | | | | graphite or fiberglass rod, fly reel and line. For bait |
| earned its fame in fishing for salmon, since it is where | | | | fishing, you will need a 10 ft. spinning rod and bait |
| the heaviest ever recorded king salmon, weighing | | | | caster reel with up to 20 lb. test line. But if you are |
| over 96 pounds. Chinook salmon is the state fish of | | | | into fishing for king or Chinook salmon, you will need |
| Alaska. | | | | a boat or a trolling rod. And because Chinook are |
| Other types of salmon include the red salmon or | | | | known to be the biggest and heaviest of its kind, |
| sockeye salmon, pink salmon, silver or Coho salmon, | | | | you will 20-40 pound or more test line. Who knows, |
| chum salmon, and the Atlantic salmon, which are left | | | | your simple fishing for salmon trip could land you to |
| run wild in the on the Atlantic coast only. Each of the | | | | catch king salmon? |