Information on Wild Alaska Salmon Skin and Flesh Color
King Salmon
A sixty-pound king on troll gear jolts you. The rigging throbs, the lines sing, and you wait, gaff at the ready for that great head to break the surface next to the boat. In a symphony of adrenaline, stamina, and action, a great king anchors your feet to the deck and sends sparks out your toes.
Chinook salmon (King salmon) average between 20 and 40 pounds in weight, and between 30 and 50 inches in length.
Chinook salmon often make long spawning migrations to reach their home streams on some of the larger river systems. Chinook bound for headwaters in Yukon Territory, Canada, travel more than 2.000 miles up the Yukon River. As the largest of the Pacific salmon, chinook seek out faster flows of water and larger spawning gravel than the other species. Each female lays from 3.000 to 14.000 eggs in her gravel nests, or redds.
