White King Question

[Nelly]

Hey Fives,
If we were playing "Stump the band"... I would owe your table a round of drinks!!!... You got me! I don't know!

I cannot honestly say that a "Blush" or "Marbled" colored flesh chinook are cross-breeds but it would seem a reasonable assumption.

To determine the answer to that question, one would have to know if the ability to retain red pigment was a dominant or recessive gene trait. That type of genetic analysis is well beyond my training and experience in the fisheries biology field.

All I know is that if Tobeck and I ever catch a white one he has to give it to me!!!

[Spud]

I saw a red and white being filleted in PT at the Derby. It was a wild Area 6 fish. Almost striped in red and white like a zebra . I have never seen anything like it.
I haven't noticed a difference in taste in the white king salmon, but there is that "visual" that may deter the taste buds..........

Spud
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[Brandon]

Thanks for the help Nelly. I get it now. The fish Spud describes sounds CRAZY!

[FrozenHerring]

IME the white kings that have died in my boat have almost always been monsters! I am of the belief that the white kings also have an uncanny hankering for SQUIDIES!! The whities i have kept in or near the ditch tasted like dooh dooh but others have tasted just fine so i reckon if you take good care of them they would be just fine....

[Nelly]

I will extend my offer to Tobeck of taking all his white kings to everyone on the board!
If you want to get rid of those nasty, pale things, just let me know!!!

[Robbo]

I found the letter from Ed Jones. It contains some interesting information, though it does contain somewhat of a contradiction. He talks about white kings being very rare south of Southern BC and then the note from the Washington fisherman confirms that a large part of their catch in July is white king. I doubt that many Canadian fish dip that far south of the border. Regardless, more interesting stuff

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[Ruckus]

That's interesting info thanks Rob pretty cool stuff.
The Chilkat River dumps in right there in Haines, AK. It runs right behind my Aunts house in the village of Klukwan. Killer monster coho fishn in the fall, but it runs chocolate brown from glacial meltoff all summer long. Not much opportunity to catch any whites in that unless your using a gillnet.