Record Coho

Ed Schriever, Head of fisheries for the Idaho Fish and Game Department: "A perfect storm where these things come together so that you get a couple of consecutive generations for the naturally produced fall Chinook. We are expecting that if we don't set a contemporary record, that is since lower Granite dam has been in place for fall Chinook returns, then it will be really close to last year's record run. The interesting thing within that run is that this year we are expecting over half of the adults returning in that run to be natural origin fish. That is, fish who originated from eggs that were laid in the environment and not coming from a hatchery. We are expecting that if we don't set a contemporary record, that is since lower Granite dam has been in place for fall Chinook returns, then it will be really close to last year's record run." So lots of talk about records. Here's another salmon record. Ethan Crawford of Moscow, Idaho caught a 9.4 pound, 31 inch female Coho just one day after Idaho opened its first fishing season for sea-run coho salmon. That too is a record.