pink salmon in elk creek

Just wondering fellers i have been fishing elk creek for 13 years and have never seen a pink salmon in the creek seen one about 8 years ago at trout run have a empty spot on my wall for a pink salmon i know they run pretty early like now-early oct has any one out there caught one at elk creek i figure with all the steelhead cohos(up until 2 years ago ) i guess the state stopped cohos in 2003 that i caught over the years i still am batting 0.00 on pinks any suggestions thanks coho yokel 1

Egg Sac is the man on the pinkers. I think he gets one just about every other even year, thats how they run. ask him, he's got some cool photo in his album on this site.Just go to the photo album section, I think he is on page 2.

I caught one on Walnut about 3-4 years ago. It was one of the few fish I ever kept. I figured someone in the family would want to eat it, to make a long story short, they hated it.

I would have gotten it mounted if I knew how rare it was. Guy at PR says to me as he carves the one side off "These are rare, we're lucky to see two of these in a year."

Hey jeb thanks for the info seen that photo of egg sack with a sweet lookin humpbacked male pink salmon caught several male humpback kokanee salmon back in my home state of connecticut moved here 13 years ago and miss those kokes terribly only wish we had them here in pa then the state decides to do away with the coho program looks like back to new york for my salmon fix

All of the pinks in the Great Lakes are wild fish, descended from an accidental stocking in Lake Superior 50 years ago. They are mostly found in the upper Great lakes but a small number are caught in Lake Erie. They are a great little bonus fish and take flies or bait well. They run about 16" to 22", with females generally smaller than the hump-backed males.

Soon would be the time for pinks..  I've seen a few in Elk, some dead.  Never caught one though.  Keep in mind when keeping them, that their young do not hold over like a naturally reproduced steelhead would, so the chance of natural reproduction is much higher than steel.  The young head to the lake asap.  It's quite a rarity and a gem to catch one along the Erie shoreline.  Congrats to all that have.  Superior's tribs get some good runs of them.

Kushequa,
   I couldn't get the pic to load, but you right about not confusing it with a steelie. The deep pink sides with only about a 1/2 dozen spots. A person would have to be blind to make that mistake. I, too wasn't very familiar with them when I caught mine or the 19 incher probably would have gone to the taxidermist. They are supposed to run every 3-4 yrs. maybe this will be the year. That would be a "nice dream" on.
   Steve