ChumDog? (O. keta)
Chum salmon sometimes get the short (ugly?) end of the angling stick. But, to me, they have a beauty—primarily a “yank-your-arm-off” type of beauty.
My father and I had a morning in Alaska one year when we could do no wrong on a huge pool full of chums. It wasn’t pretty fishing—mostly down and dirty, swing and retrieve—but the all-business takes and locomotive pulls made me forget about anything else for a few hours. My father even managed to blow up a favorite salmon rod when a trying to “walk a dog” a little too hard!
Anytime someone says, “The chums are in, wanna try for ‘em?,” you know what my answer usually is…
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