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Salmon caught in the sea

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    #62
    popsy09
    Registered Users Posts: 660 ✭✭✭popsy09


    popsy09 wrote: »
    Seen this today and remembered this thread

    It was caught trolling at sea 45-50lb approx



    Only pic I have


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    #63
    stylie
    Registered Users Posts: 689 ✭✭✭stylie


    Looks positively Baltic


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    #64
    popsy09
    Registered Users Posts: 660 ✭✭✭popsy09


    Was caught trolling off Poland , would same principle not apply in the Atlantic ? Or is it a different gene of salmon ??

    Regardless anyway its some belter of a fish


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    #65
    Zzippy
    Registered Users Posts: 14,166 ✭✭✭✭Zzippy


    popsy09 wrote: »
    Was caught trolling off Poland , would same principle not apply in the Atlantic ? Or is it a different gene of salmon ??

    Regardless anyway its some belter of a fish

    Salmon are regularly caught in the Baltic, which is much less saline than the Atlantic. The Baltic is so brackish that pike survive quite well there. IMO it's probable that salmon that feed in the Baltic keep feeding right until they enter freshwater again, so are easily caught, whereas it seems the Atlantic salmon stop feeding when they leave their high-seas feeding grounds and start their migration back to our shores - by the time they reach Ireland they are not feeding at all, and are therefore more difficult to tempt with a bait.


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    #66
    popsy09
    Registered Users Posts: 660 ✭✭✭popsy09


    good bit of info there, thanks


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    #67
    malinheader
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    A Real wild Salmon would not normally feed in salt water so to catch two would seem very strange. Could be escaped caged salmon or sea trout most likely


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    #68
    breghall
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    Must be real big cages to hold those type of salmon. did you see the pic


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    #69
    malinheader
    Registered Users Posts: 5,132 ✭✭✭malinheader


    They dont get the chance to grow that big in the cages,the biggest majority of them are taken out when they reach between 7 to 9 llbs so they are the correct size for smoking or side filleting. The ones that escape usually just lye about around the shore line as they have no homing or breeding instincts like the wild fish, very uncommon to get a very big one because they are easy prey for seals.


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    #70
    danbrosnan
    Registered Users Posts: 900 ✭✭✭danbrosnan


    Salmon feed in there feeding grounds, the majority of the salmon caught in ireland feed off the coast of greenland and to fish for them off the coast of ireland would be pointless, it just goes to show we can put a flying craft on a comet but we actually know **** all about our majestic salmon... The same goes for the deepest parts of our oceans and the deepest parts of our minds, fantastic looking fish, tight lines...


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