Thread: Salmon

Originally Posted by mikee

I would suspect from what I saw on hatchery "open days" when I was a kid, any hand male fish got mixed with any handy female fish! That was about the extent of any genetic "selection"

kind of like what happens when we shoot the best stags while still in velvet and leave the dregs to do the funky chicken with the hinds then...
yet we still see some absolute crackers turn up in any season with decent tucker after a year with less pressure.....