Sea salmon and flatties

[cookiemonster]

Fished sluice sunday 6-midnight plenty bites 2 large flatties then the prize of the night a 3lb sea salmon marvelous,who says there is no fish out there

[adam.d]

Ahem, I hope you returned the salmon as you need a license to keep them!

[mick dunn]

Was it discard though.

Mick

[g.ordon]

Fished sluice sunday 6-midnight plenty bites 2 large flatties then the prize of the night a 3lb sea salmon marvelous,who says there is no fish out there

Nice one. What did ya catch the salmon on mate?

[northeast1]

Maybe a sea trout that size and at this time of the year.

[paulthespark]

there is no such fish as a sea salmon the species is called salmon ,sorry to be a bit pedantic but i would find it a bit strange if someone said a sea mackerel it's also a pet hate of mine when celebrity chefs call a bass a "sea" bass.

[Charlton]

it's also a pet hate of mine when celebrity chefs call a bass a "sea" bass.[/QUOTE]

think they do this to differentiated between a wild and farmed bass.

[curtis.dunn]

pics

any pics mate

[steve ifa]

I very much dought it been a salmon or sea trout at this time of year , dont no how much this lad nows his fish, but not seeing the fish i would say a bass ?

[Kev1n]

An unusual catch.
My guess is that was more likely to be a sea trout that had spawned. The sea trout cope with spawning better than salmon do and then return to live in the sea close in to the coast where the home river is.
Salmon head off way up north when they leave the rivers as juvenile fish which are smaller than pound a in weight. Any salmon that survive spawning will be on their way back to sea then also heading north. These will be skinny fish not worth keeping for the pan.

[bigfen]

I would say it is a sea trout as salmon very rarely take bait and are out of season this time of year sea trout however will take bait all year round .You will often see them caught during the summer months when people are fishing for mackeral.Only on Friday night I was present when a sea trout was caught at the glass centre,Sunderland.

[cookiemonster]

I sense a bit of jealousy

[cookiemonster]

Caught on squid

[BestNest]

I sense a bit of jealousy

HAHA, I was thinking the same...Well Done Fella.

[MOE]

I remember seeing a programme that said the easiest way to tell if a fish is a salmon or sea trout was to try and pick it up by the joint on the tail, if it slips through your hand it is a trout and if you can hold it easily it is a salmon.