What city/area has the best Salmon?

Digger_Bones

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They say salmon is the new miracle food, (not farm raised) so I'm wondering who has the best salmon in their city. Best meaning, inexpensive and in abundance?

Seattle? Alaska? Boston? Portland, Oregon??
 
Digger_Bones said:
You don't hear too many negative things about Vancouver, I need to seriously get up there.

Well, I'll start you off. They're all a bunch of pot-smoking hippie douchebags.

Good seafood though.
 
Alaska has the best tasting salmon

In Washington, salmon coming from the Quinault River is comparable to Alaskan salmon.

I would tend to avoid salmon coming out of the Columbia River, or that which had to travel the Puget Sound. Unfortunately, pollution is a huge problem. The health of the Puget Sound breaks my heart a little.
 
Don't forget the heroin addicts

Drinking Cap said:
Well, I'll start you off. They're all a bunch of pot-smoking hippie douchebags.

Good seafood though.

Gastown. Bad news.
 
Boston is more of a cod/flounder/halibut/scrod place... not really known as much for salmon.
 
Digger_Bones said:
They say salmon is the new miracle food, (not farm raised) so I'm wondering who has the best salmon in their city. Best meaning, inexpensive and in abundance?

Seattle? Alaska? Boston? Portland, Oregon??

hmmmmm, Alaska and Oregon aren't cities. Salmon is always on the menu here in Anchorage.

I find that the most inexpensive and abundant salmon is the farm raised crap. I won't eat it.
 
You know, this is one of those questions like, "Who's the greatest guitar player?"

If you go to any coastal area from the Cali border to western AK, you can find incredible salmon. It's personal choice from there.
 
Peregrinator said:
You know, this is one of those questions like, "Who's the greatest guitar player?"

Because the answer to both is Angus Young?
 
Peregrinator said:
You know, this is one of those questions like, "Who's the greatest guitar player?"

If you go to any coastal area from the Cali border to western AK, you can find incredible salmon. It's personal choice from there.

Indeed so. My grandma's cast iron frying pan was THE place to get the best salmon from, when she was still alive and cooking. Of course, the fish was generally fresh out of the ocean.
 
moana15 said:
In Washington, salmon coming from the Quinault River is comparable to Alaskan salmon.

I would tend to avoid salmon coming out of the Columbia River, or that which had to travel the Puget Sound. Unfortunately, pollution is a huge problem. The health of the Puget Sound breaks my heart a little.

But there are other rivers where great salmon can be obtained: The Elwha, Dungenesss, Humptulips, Snokomish, Hama Hama, Dosewalips, Hoh, Soo, just to name a few.

And where the salmon are, so there is Steelhead. Oh yea!!!

Cedar planked salmon cooked over an Alder fire is the best. Not like I live in the middle of all that or anything.



Comshaw
 
thør said:
Indeed so. My grandma's cast iron frying pan was THE place to get the best salmon from, when she was still alive and cooking. Of course, the fish was generally fresh out of the ocean.
Nice. I haven't had any that I caught myself yet.
 
Skokomish and Snohomish

Comshaw said:
But there are other rivers where great salmon can be obtained: The Elwha, Dungenesss, Humptulips, Snokomish, Hama Hama, Dosewalips, Hoh, Soo, just to name a few.

And where the salmon are, so there is Steelhead. Oh yea!!!

Cedar planked salmon cooked over an Alder fire is the best. Not like I live in the middle of all that or anything.



Comshaw

Those would be the two rivers rather than the Snokomish :)

I like the cedar planked salmon myself. Tend to like the alder planked more though. Cedar is a little too sharp for the fish.

Anyway, yes, anywhere on the Olympic Penninsula. Quinault has my favorite steelhead too.
 
Coho salmon is one of my favorite kinds. But it costs quite a bit more to buy it, but it is far better then Atlantic and many of the cheaper salmons
 
bunnislippers said:
bc salmon fresh from the fraser river

Yep them Frazer river Kings are great. But we don't get 'em from the Frazer, we catch 'em when they come in the Strait as they're headed for the Frazer.

A cut plug, a boat, a good tide change, the right time of year, a little bit of know how, a lot of fishing time and Presto you got yourself a 20, 30, 40, or 50 pound king. The biggest I've seen caught here was 62 1/2 lbs. There have been others. There's a story about one from the Keni river in Alaska years ago that tipped the scales at 140 lbs.

But you know how fishermen are, can't trust a damn thing they say.

Lying is a fisherman's right and responsibility, third only to beer drinking and fishing.


:rolleyes:

Comshaw
 
I made pesto-stuffed grilled salmon the other night. It was terrific. So the best place to get salmon is at my house.
 
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