River Salmon?

Scare tactics... better stop smoking, eating bacon, stop drinking, no more going over the speed limit. What fun will life be now....

not a scare tactic just trying to inform you .. now that you have been informed by all means do what you wish .. just inform your wife and kids and then let them make a educated decision on wheather they are going to eat it or not. we dont do samples for nothing ..

not all salmon are flossed, most are though, i thought a king would never hit anything in a river, well this past weekend, i was fishing from around 4 am until dark, hooked into a bunch of fresh chrome kings using spinners, most i lost due to line rips and tangles or they got broken. When it came down to me having a couple lures left, i put on a williams ice fishing lure, was casting into a pool around a metre and a half deep, clear water, 15 pound mono, i could see easily 20 fish in the pool, most were a yellowish colour but i could see a few chromers in there as well. I had a hit and my reel started screaming, i look and out comes a chrome hen head shaking with believe it or not, the lure in its mouth! I clearly saw the strike, it turned around and grabbed the lure much like a pike or bass. First time I've seen this but they do hit, especially the fresh ones who haven't adapted to the creek yet. I caught around 30 fish that day and kept the one hen for myself, some roe and table fare, meat was orange and tasted delicious, kept a couple female chromers for a bud to whom I've been promising fish for a while, released 2 cohos and broke off to a large town using a white spinner, what a weekend![URL=http://s879.photobucket.com/user/rainbow256/media/20140906_162320_zps2191f8c4.jpg.html]http://i879.photobucket.com/albums/a...ps2191f8c4.jpg[/URL[URL=http://s879.photobucket.com/user/rainbow256/media/IMG_20140821_051722_zps299d906e.jpg.html]http://i879.photobucket.com/albums/a...ps299d906e.jpg[/URLhttp://i879.photobucket.com/albums/a...psed684038.jpg

Why not we take a look at the MOE fish consumption guide?

Lake Ontario between Scarborough Bluffs and Colborne - the section Duffin's Creek flows into: http://www.ontario.ca/environment-an...rt?id=43507840
Chinooks below 16 inches, 4 meals per month for both general and sensitive populations, which is the middle of their contamination range. Above 16 inches, sensitive population (children and future mothers) should have none, general population 1 or 2 meals per month up to 30 inches and then none.
Cohos, no one should have any.

Rouge River spawning runs - just because it's the closest river to Duffin's Creek that has entries for salmon:
http://www.ontario.ca/environment-an...rt?id=43527910
Chinooks, none for the sensitive population, 1 meal per month for general. Though there's no data for chinooks under 22 inches.
Chohos below 16 inches, 4 meals per month for both general and sensitive populations. Above 16 inches, sensitive population should have none, general population 1 or 2 meals per month.

Lake Ontario between Scarborough Bluffs and Clarkson Harbour - for those who fish the central GTA:
http://www.ontario.ca/environment-an...rt?id=43357917
Chinooks, none for the sensitive population, 1 meal per month for general up to 26 inches and then none. No data for cohos.

As mark270wsm says, the samples are based on a skinless dorsal fillet:

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In the case of oily fish like salmon in Lake Ontario, the highest concentration of contaminants would be in the fat adjacent to the skin.

I don't take the consumption advisories literally since the numbers are a bit arbitrary, but they're a good indication of relative contamination levels between fish and locations. If you're eating salmon from Lake Ontario I hope you're at least removing the skin and as much of the fat layer as possible, and grilling the fillets to let more fat drip away.

Edit: awesome fish and story pikeattack, I meant my post for mark270wsm and JeffBondar, didn't see your post when I started typing it.

Is the posted links just for fish in the creeks?

thanks tws, and i fish out further than that if I'm fishing east anyway, mostly gbay though.

i stand corrected I have made a mistake on the size limit and i opologize for making that error . but like its been posted they really are not safe to eat

I won't deny that the fish in Lake Ontario are contaminated, you can't flush all your crap (literally) into the lake and not think the fish are going to absorb it when they are swimming, breathing and eating in it. That said, there's probably few places on this planet now where the fish aren't contaminated in some way shape or form. Does anyone actually know where the fish in the market were caught from? I'm willing to bet many were from waters that are more polluted than Lake Ontario, but that economic machine needs to keep on turning so off to market they go. I'm also willing to bet that many fish are consumed from lakes around the Sudbury area without a second though because those are clean pristine northern lakes right? Well according to the eating guide, some of those lakes are even worse than what lake O has to offer, as a result of the crud spewing from the smelters at the mines. In the end, if you were to listen to every experts opinion on all the different foods, from water to red meat and all points in between, it would only be safe to not eat or drink, see how long you can live on that diet.
Isn't wheat bad for you now? I think it was eggs a few weeks ago. Tap water is poisonous now because it has fluorine in it (which has been in it forever, but it's bad now). Wine was good 2 months ago, but then was bad, but now it might be good or still bad?!?! I hope by now you get the point. Eat what makes you happy, be it tofu or a deep fried mars bar.

We shouldn't be drinking coke, eating McDonalds or Potato Chips. We should not eat chocolate bars or fruit loops. We should not eat cold cut meats.

There's lots of stuff out there killing us - full of untested chemicals and even tested chemicals that are known carcinogens (like nitrates which are used to preserve meats).

What should we eat? I honestly don't think eating a salmon up to 16" in size (and probably bigger) is doing any more damage than all the other crap we are eating.

Look at cancer rates, diabetes, and now even autism - all blamed on our consumption of food in grocery stores.

Don't fool yourself by picking on one food option (salmon).

The only people who can say anything about this and gain respect is those who are actually growing and eating their own food, using clean, truly organic methods. That's a lot of hard work, and expensive.

A William's ice jig for river salmon??? Really? INCREDIBLE!!!