Salmon Nicknames
Does anyone know of a site that lists the five pacific salmon with all their nicknames ?

I don't have any list, but lets get one started:

Chinook - Blackmouth, spring, tyee, stinky, king

Coho - Blueback, silver

Sockeye - Red, greenhead, socks, nerka

Chum - Keta, dog, purple tiger-trout,

Pink - Humpback, humpy

Steelhead - ironhead, metalhead, rainbow warrior,

Cutthroat - cutty,

That is all I could come up with right now. Anyone got any additions?

Cutthroat- yellow belly

Pink - Slimer

Coho - northerns

Chum - Calico Salmon

Pinks - Pinky

Pink - Purple Pancake

Chinook- Quinnat ? - Smiley ? can anyone verify?

I personally prefer
Steelhead - Head
Coho - Ho's
Chinook - Nookie...

You can even create a catch phrase while fishing for these like "I did it all for the nookie"

Know doubt you ho!

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