On Oct 16, 2:55*pm, notbob wrote:
On 2008-10-16, daytripper wrote:

It's usually a dead-giveaway that a salmon is foul-hooked when it is doing
cartwheels across the stream, whereas a fair-hooked fish will usually try to
bull its way out. Generally, people will try to long-line release or simply
break-off a fish once it's obvious the fish isn't fair-hooked.

Hmmm. *I would have thought a fish that is foul-hooked ....what I call gut
hooked.... would be kept for eating as there's a good chance it will die,
anyway. *Your reply would seem to countradict that. *Am I mistaken? *If so,
how? *Thank you for your previous enlightening reply.

nb

People who keep salmon almost always smoke them. Personally, I don't
think that the salmon meat at this stage is all that good, it often
has a mealy texture and doesn't really taste like what you would
expect. Smoking it helps overcome that.