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    Salmon Fishing Guide Idaho

    If you're looking for a chinook salmon fishing guide in Idaho, check out Steelhead Mania.  Our prices are the best in the region, and our guides are the most experienced you will find.   We know the rivers, lakes, and streams of Idaho like the backs of our hands, and we know the behaviors of the salmon within them.

    Steelhead Mania will provide you with a reputed salmon fishing guide.  Idaho is home to some of best chinook fishing on earth.  The meat of the chinook salmon is arguably the best-tasting of all the salmon varieties.  Perhaps that's why chinook salmon is the best-selling salmon in the world.

    Fun Facts About Idaho Salmon

    • Idaho is famed for its chinook salmon. Chinook salmon is the largest salmon variety of the Pacific. 
    • With some individuals growing to more than 100 pounds. These huge fish are rare, as most mature chinook are under 50 pounds.
    • "Chinook salmon" means "King Salmon"
    • The scientific name for chinook salmon is "Oncorhynchus tshawytscha"
    • Immature Chinooks are called "Blackmouth Salmon"
    • The average weight of a mature chinook salmon is 13 lbs
    • Some chinooks can weigh more than 100 lbs, though these are very rare
    • Chinook salmon spawn in large rivers, such as the Columbia River and the Snake River
    • They also spawn in streams so long as there is enough water flow
    • Chinook salmon spawn in deeper parts of rivers and streams where the water flow is high
    • Chinooks will travel hundreds of miles upstream just to spawn

    Understanding the Salmon Language

    Before fishing with you salmon fishing guide in Idaho, it might be helpful if you learn the terms associated with salmon.  Indeed, there are enough terms that it's almost like learning a new language to talk about salmon.  Let's examine some of these terms:

    Alevin: This term is used to describe a salmon's lifestage between egg and fry.  Alevins appear to have a pot belly.  These "pot bellies" are remaining egg sacs.  The egg sac feeds the salmon until they're mature enough to venture out on their own.

    Anadromous: Salmon are anadromous fish, meaning that they spend a big part of their lives both in saltwater and freshwater.

    Emergence: This term is used to describe the act of the salmon leaving its sac at the "fry" stage.

    Fry: The term "Fry" isn't referring to how we cook the salmon.  A fry is a juvenile salmon that has gone out on his own in the river or stream.

    Kype: The kype of a salmon is the hooked-shape jaw male salmon develop

    Parr: "Parrs" are large juvenile salmon, also known as a fingerling

    Smolt: Also a juvenile salmon, a smolt will leave its birth stream or river and enter the ocean.  At this stage in their lives, the salmon will lose their camouflage colors and become a solid chrome color.

    Book Your Salmon Fishing Guide in Idaho

    Idaho's chinook salmon are the most sought after variety on earth.  Every year, anglers come from all over the world in hopes of catching this anadromous fish.  At Steelhead Mania, our salmon fishing guides know Idaho waters well.  We have all the trips, tips, and techniques to help you pull a monster.

    Salmon Fishing Guide Idaho
    Steelhead Mania
    (503) 871-1339
    Salmon Fishing Guide Idaho
    11360 U.S. Highway 12
    Orofino ID 83544 US

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