king salmon†

Pacific Coast

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a Chinook salmon.

Quotations

1900

. . . we are proud to have thee as our potlach-guest; but the king-salmon does not mate with the dog-salmon.

1916

In mid-summer the tyee or king salmon also runs strong in Valdez Straits north and south of the mouth of the Campbell River.

1959

Thirty big . . . kings met their fate, about 80 per cent of them from fishermen using pearl pink Lucky Louis plugs.

1963

Fall is also in the return of the salmon to their rivers--not in the early king salmon runs that come to a few rivers in May. . . .