Looking Back, First Salmon!

I've been spending a lot of time lately "looking forward" to the spring salmon season; with a close eye on February 8th when ODFW will set the spring salmon season for the Columbia and Willamette Rivers.  The anticipation has been driving me nuts so I thought I'd take a break from the forward thinking and look back at my first salmon.

This good looking fish was caught using down-riggers and plugs during the summer of 1991 off of Possession Point in Puget Sound, just north of Seattle. Up there, they call these black-mouths, but we call them Chinook down here in Oregon.  I guess I had beginners luck on my first salmon adventure!

1991 Black-mouth (Chinook) - lbs. unknown (but I could make a # up)