09-28-2003, 02:31 AM
here is the lowdown.
salmon do quit eating for the most part, what happens is when they come up the river they instinctivly kill any thing that moves that even resembles a fish, it is a teritorial thing. they want the waters free of any posible preditor that will feed upon their eggs or hatchlings upon thier return to the big waters. they will scoop any stray eggs drifting down the river. they dont want any thing that even smells like a different species. this is pure agression on their part.
what you are finding when you cut them open is, they swallow any thing that gets lodged in their mouths. I have even found rocks marbles and beer can pull off tabs.
this is why spoons work on them along with eggs sacks will catch them. so you are not snagging them, you are agrivating them to the point where they will hit on your spoon.
hopes this helps.
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salmon do quit eating for the most part, what happens is when they come up the river they instinctivly kill any thing that moves that even resembles a fish, it is a teritorial thing. they want the waters free of any posible preditor that will feed upon their eggs or hatchlings upon thier return to the big waters. they will scoop any stray eggs drifting down the river. they dont want any thing that even smells like a different species. this is pure agression on their part.
what you are finding when you cut them open is, they swallow any thing that gets lodged in their mouths. I have even found rocks marbles and beer can pull off tabs.
this is why spoons work on them along with eggs sacks will catch them. so you are not snagging them, you are agrivating them to the point where they will hit on your spoon.
hopes this helps.
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