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Barrow salmon

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  • 07-04-2009 11:24pm
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    Per Petterson
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    I fished the barrow for around an hour a couple of weeks ago with a 4 or 5 inch plug for pike and caught 2 very nice perch and pretty sure it was a salmon around 4 or 5 pounds really long and slender but not 100 percent. It didnt have spots like a sea trout do. Is there much salmon in the barrow??


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    Woger
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    Per Petterson wrote: »
    I fished the barrow for around an hour a couple of weeks ago with a 4 or 5 inch plug for pike and caught 2 very nice perch and pretty sure it was a salmon around 4 or 5 pounds really long and slender but not 100 percent. It didnt have spots like a sea trout do. Is there much salmon in the barrow??

    Could have been a keeb/kelt, a salmon that is on it's way back to sea after spawning.


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    Super-Rush
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    there are plenty of salmon in the barrow. A good few have been caught by accident (including one by yours truly), but salmon angling is banned on the barrow for the foreseeable future


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    Per Petterson
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    super-rush wrote: »
    there are plenty of salmon in the barrow. A good few have been caught by accident (including one by yours truly), but salmon angling is banned on the barrow for the foreseeable future
    Ye I had no intention of catching one and dont have a Licence or anything to fish for them. It Was just by chance nothing like that has ever happined to me before I released it aferwards:). I presume It was a young only been a few pounds!


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    premiercad
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    Per that sounds like a Kelt to me or spent salmon. Specially when you say that it was long and slender. Kelts generally have a starved look about them after burning up so much energy spawning and fasting over the winter in fresh water they sometimes have a redish tint in the silver too and look dullish. Your fish was an adult alright probably a Grisle as it only spent one year at sea before returning to spawn hence the low weight. Glad you let him back though its great to know a few are still making the trip up to spawn. We need lots more like your fish to get the numbers back up!!


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    Super-Rush
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    Per Petterson wrote: »
    Ye I had no intention of catching one and dont have a Licence or anything to fish for them. It Was just by chance nothing like that has ever happined to me before I released it aferwards:). I presume It was a young only been a few pounds!

    same with me, i was fishing for dace and roach on the pole and first put in i had a salmon. Cracking fight on light elastic


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