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What Do You Know About Alaska's Salmon?

Chinook aka King Salmon are the biggest of the Salmon species. The world record King Salmon was taken from the Kenai River in Soldotna, AK weighing in at 97lbs.!

King Salmon

Chinook Salmon are also known as..?

The Coho aka Silver Salmon is a highly sought after game fish due to their hard fighting, acrobatic tendencies. Their catching appeal also comes from the fact that they are aggressive strikers and will readily hit spoons, lures, and salmon roe.

Silver Salmon

Coho Salmon are also known as..?

Sockeye Salmon is the smallest of the pacific salmon, but their meat is prized above all. Their diet however consists solely of plankton, thus making them the trickiest salmon of all to catch.

Plankton

Sockeye Salmon eat..?

Sockeye are also known as Red Salmon, they tend to migrate up rivers in big hoards, so once you find one, there are usually many, many more!

Red Salmon

Sockeye Salmon are also known as..?

Ketchikan is well known as the salmon capital of the world and a paradise for sport fishermen and naturalists alike. During the summer months, our town bustles with visitors from all over the world. While the rustic boardwalk on Creek Street preserves a distinct historic feel, the town hums with new construction to keep up with the ever-expanding wave of tourism.

Ketchikan, Alaksa

What city in Alaska is known as "The Salmon Capital of the World"?

The world record King Salmon was taken from the Kenai River in Soldotna, AK weighing in at 97lbs.

97lbs

How much does the world record King Salmon weigh?

The trick to catching a Sockeye is to get your leader line to thread their mouth thus bringing the hook to the corner of the jaw, and wham! Fish on! This is what has been dubbed flossing.

Sockeye Salmon

Which Salmon must be caught using the "flossing" technique when using a rod and reel?

Salmon snobs of Alaska will often turn up their noses at Chums because they are thought to be only fit for dog food. However, the Chum is a popular fish on the national and international markets being found usually by the name of Silverbright.

Chum Salmon

Besides Chinook, Coho, and Sockeye - What's another Alaska Salmon species?

In fact, they are so closely related that fishermen and scientists often have a difficult time classifying the individual species. Both fish are classified as “an oily fish”. Technically Trout are a species of freshwater and saltwater fish and Salmon belong to some of the same family as trout. However unlike most trout, most salmon species spend most of their lives in salt water and are not usually found in fresh water on a regular basis.

Trout

What fish is closely related to the Salmon?

There are five species of Alaska salmon: king (or chinook), red (sockeye), pink (humpys), silver (coho), and chum (sometimes called dog).

Five

How many total species of Salmon in Alaska?

You must be in to canned salmon. Try again.

You'll make it buddy, this is respectable.

You are the true King (of) Salmon. Congrats!

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