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Join Captain Jim Gullett aboard the spacious 38' Wind Rose for a sportfishing or scenic charter and discover the unique beauty of the wild Northern California coast. With over 38 years' commercial fishing experience and an outstanding catch record, Captain Jim will be your personal guide to salmon and rock cod fishing out of Trinidad Bay.- read more...
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Pacific Salmon - A Long History
Filed Under Fish Tales
“No one knows exactly how old Pacific salmon are, but they may have split off as a separate family of fishes as many as 100 million years ago.
Current theory suggests prehistoric salmon began as lake dwellers and did not take to the oceans until the marine waters cooled considerably during the Oligocene Age some 40 million years ago.
The genus oncorhynchus probably emerged in the Miocene Age 24 million years ago as the Northwest coast began to take shape.
One now extinct salmonid from this era is the saber-toothed salmon. Weighing hundreds of pounds, it had a pair of enormous curved teeth, but fed chiefly on plankton…
The ancestors of today’s Pacific salmon, such as those found in the banks of the Skokomish River, originated in the Pleistocene Age, a time when the watersheds and river systems of today began to form.”
(The above excerpt is from an article written by journalist John Dodge of The Olympian.)
