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General => Fish Talk => Topic started by: & on December 28, 2015, 08:59:52 AM

Title: Fish ID - Sonoma County
Post by: & on December 28, 2015, 08:59:52 AM
Annual visit to West Dry Creek during first week of November.  Pleased and surprised to find a FISH staging in the creek behind Truett Hurst Winery (https://www.google.com/maps/place/Truett+Hurst/@38.6795217,-122.9431294,1216m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m2!3m1!1s0x8084052718e10cb7:0x94233810c629c4e7).  Doesn't come out as clearly in pix, looking at it could easily perceive by movement and contrast.  Estimate around 5 to 7 lbs, ~ 24 inches. 

slender dark object just to the left of the green patch.  Mesmerizing, a thing of beauty

(https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5812/23919163572_3bb6527a9d_k.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/CrDXZW)

Upriver shot shows surrounding terrain.

(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1477/23919161542_6b283d41d9_k.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/CrDXoW)

Any ID suggestions?
Title: Re: Fish ID - Sonoma County
Post by: polepole on December 28, 2015, 09:08:50 AM
Probably a steelie heading to the hatchery upstream of you.

-Allen
Title: Re: Fish ID - Sonoma County
Post by: & on December 28, 2015, 09:42:09 AM
Quote from: polepole on December 28, 2015, 09:08:50 AM
Probably a steelie heading to the hatchery upstream of you.

-Allen

also possibly a wild chinook?  Dry Creek apparently still viable natural spawn site from Nov to Jan.  http://www.scwa.ca.gov/chinook/  From that site, the Water Agency counted nearly 6,700 fish in 2012.  Pretty "wild" if it was a native nookie, piscine equivalent of spotting a white rhino at african nature preserve!
Title: Re: Fish ID - Sonoma County
Post by: LoletaEric on December 28, 2015, 10:14:24 AM
My guess is Chinook.
Title: Re: Fish ID - Sonoma County
Post by: FishingForTheCure on December 28, 2015, 10:21:23 AM
Beautiful scenery
Title: Re: Fish ID - Sonoma County
Post by: polepole on December 28, 2015, 11:30:58 AM
Quote from: Mao Mao Mao on December 28, 2015, 09:42:09 AM
Quote from: polepole on December 28, 2015, 09:08:50 AM
Probably a steelie heading to the hatchery upstream of you.

-Allen

also possibly a wild chinook?  Dry Creek apparently still viable natural spawn site from Nov to Jan.  http://www.scwa.ca.gov/chinook/  From that site, the Water Agency counted nearly 6,700 fish in 2012.  Pretty "wild" if it was a native nookie, piscine equivalent of spotting a white rhino at african nature preserve!

Sure, it could have been.  Or even a coho.  If it was dark and brown, likely a nookie.  If it was blush red, likely a coho.  If it was silvery fresh, likely a steelie.

-Allen
Title: Re: Fish ID - Sonoma County
Post by: Sin Coast on December 28, 2015, 02:52:43 PM
Pretty sure that's a catatafish.
http://southpark.cc.com/clips/399976/i-am-catatafish
Title: Re: Fish ID - Sonoma County
Post by: & on December 28, 2015, 02:59:21 PM
oh catatafish, where do they come up with that stuff?!  cray cray!!
Title: Re: Fish ID - Sonoma County
Post by: ThreemoneyJ on December 28, 2015, 08:14:07 PM
Chinook. Lots of them up in the hatchery now. They are the early arrivals.