{"id":4020,"date":"2013-05-24t09:16:43","date_gmt":"2013-05-24t13:16:43","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/www.bulkreeftv.com\/?p=4020"},"modified":"2017-05-22t17:15:34","modified_gmt":"2017-05-22t17:15:34","slug":"memorial-day-tradition-the-copper-river-salmon-are-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/\/www.bulkreeftv.com\/memorial-day-tradition-the-copper-river-salmon-are-back\/","title":{"rendered":"memorial day tradition- the copper river salmon are back!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>last thursday, may 16th, marked the opening of the 2013 copper river salmon season.<\/b> weather was rough and landings were low. we received a shipment of gorgeous sockeyes last saturday, but none of the regal kings. 82,000 sockeyes or &#8220;reds&#8221; were landed and only 700 kings were taken.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_6641\" style=\"width: 370px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6641\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6641\" src=\"\/\/www.bulkreeftv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/bernie-with-copper-river-king-salmon.jpg\" alt=\"25 ib. copper river king salmon\" width=\"360\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"\/\/www.bulkreeftv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/bernie-with-copper-river-king-salmon.jpg 360w, \/\/www.bulkreeftv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/bernie-with-copper-river-king-salmon-300x300.jpg 300w, \/\/www.bulkreeftv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/bernie-with-copper-river-king-salmon-100x100.jpg 100w, \/\/www.bulkreeftv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/bernie-with-copper-river-king-salmon-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-6641\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">bernie in 2012 with a 35 lb. fat beauty!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>higher than anticipated landings of sockeyes, lower on kings. <b>the second opening on the 20th saw better overall catches and we&#8217;re optimistic about next week\u2019s supplies. <\/b><\/p>\n<p>for the memorial day weekend we will have plenty of gorgeous sockeye but the king of salmon will remain elusive \u2018till next week. <b>not to say that the copper river sockeye won\u2019t be some of the most scrumptious salmon of the year! <\/b>we planked some on red cedar planks (available at monahan\u2019s) with some of our <a href=\"\/\/www.bulkreeftv.com\/monahans-irish-whiskey-maple-glaze\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">irish whiskey maple glaze<\/a> and it was amazing! and the leftover <a href=\"\/\/www.bulkreeftv.com\/super-simple-sweet-spicy-summer-salmon-salad\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">salmon salad<\/a> i made was <i>almost<\/i> as good.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>check out our past <a href=\"\/\/www.bulkreeftv.com\/oh-yeah-wild-pacific-salmon-season-is-here\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">copper river articles<\/a> for more info, including <a href=\"\/\/www.bulkreeftv.com\/the-wild-salmons-of-spring-copper-river-kings-and-sockeyes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the story of how a man named john rowley changed an entire fishery.<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>last thursday, may 16th, marked the opening of the 2013 copper river salmon season. weather was rough and landings were low. we received a shipment of gorgeous sockeyes last saturday, but none of the regal kings. 82,000 sockeyes or &#8220;reds&#8221; were landed and only 700 kings were taken. higher than anticipated landings of sockeyes, lower<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"\/\/www.bulkreeftv.com\/memorial-day-tradition-the-copper-river-salmon-are-back\/\">+ read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[219,199,274],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/\/www.bulkreeftv.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4020"}],"collection":[{"href":"\/\/www.bulkreeftv.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"\/\/www.bulkreeftv.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/\/www.bulkreeftv.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/\/www.bulkreeftv.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"\/\/www.bulkreeftv.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4020\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/\/www.bulkreeftv.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"\/\/www.bulkreeftv.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"\/\/www.bulkreeftv.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}