silver salmon

See coho salmon.

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Noun	1.	silver salmon - fatty pinkish flesh of small salmon caught in the Pacific and Great Lakes coho, coho salmon, cohoe blue jack, Oncorhynchus kisutch, silver salmon, coho, coho salmon, cohoe - small salmon of northern Pacific coasts and the Great Lakes salmon - flesh of any of various marine or freshwater fish of the family Salmonidae
	2.	silver salmon - small salmon of northern Pacific coasts and the Great Lakes blue jack, Oncorhynchus kisutch, coho, coho salmon, cohoe salmon - any of various large food and game fishes of northern waters; usually migrate from salt to fresh water to spawn genus Oncorhynchus, Oncorhynchus - Pacific salmon including sockeye salmon; chinook salmon; chum salmon; coho salmon coho, coho salmon, cohoe, silver salmon - fatty pinkish flesh of small salmon caught in the Pacific and Great Lakes

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Waterfall Resort is all about fishing, calling itself "the hub of fishermen for over a century." Prince of Wales is ideally situated where "nutrient-rich spring runoff and a confluence of ocean currents attract millions of bait fish, which in turn feed vast populations of halibut, lingcod, and rockfish--as well as the extraordinary annual returns of king and silver salmon," the resort states.

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I headed for the low river in bright sunshine and, amazingly, caught nine beautiful silver salmon, each of them still bearing sea lice.

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Going to Plan B, my guide and I backpacked to a small creek containing a few spawned-out silver salmon. We spent the rest of our hunt watching this creek, and we did see a half-dozen bears.

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