Special Ed wrote: Why let them go? Just like smallies, they are a trash fish and should be left to rot on shore.

let them float down stream belly up.
that lets the other fish know you mean business..

Rob P wrote: that lets the other fish know you mean business..

I don't care who ya'r that's funny right there.

Ken G wrote:

Special Ed wrote:Trout yes, salmon no.

That's a myth. When I was doing the kid fishing program with Bob Long we fished the harbors all the time. All goby caught got smacked on the concrete and tossed back in the lake. Like I said, everything eats goby.

Fish will eat anything that resembles food, even if it barely qualifies for that. The fact that you and your fishing kiddies caught gobies on worm chunks in the harbor does not mean that salmon prey upon gobies. It means that gobies prey upon anything.

Has there ever been a salmon that has eaten a goby? I'd be an idiot not to recognize this as a possibility. However the salmon that are stocked in Lake Michigan and the ones that are naturally reproducing feed almost exclusively on alewives.

If you had the kids out there in the harbor catching silver fish they were either stockers or steelhead which are not salmon.

Ken, I recall seeing a pic of that fish. It was a beautiful looking muskie. Only way it could get better would be to pan fry its fillets in butter with some minced garlic and roughly chopped green onion.