[bronjuan]

Hey just a quick question

do jacks end up spawning/die without spawning/or return to ocean in order to return a couple years later to spawn?

 

[Every Day]

They spawn and die

 

[Richard Nixon]

They spawn and die

They just die , a little hard to spawn when they are missing the junk in the trunk.

 

[Richard Nixon]

Jacks are immature salmon, as Bill said.....

 

[Fishaholic]

Never heard of jacks not developing?...if fact have seen them.
Seen 4-5 inch jacked trout fully developed

 

[Richard Nixon]

Have you ever seen a Jacqueline salmon Fishaholic?

 

[Richard Nixon]

Never heard of jacks reproducing ??? I know they do go threw the motions like a dog on your leg >

 

[Richard Nixon]

I know they do go threw the motions like a dog on your leg >

There goes my beer all over the keyboard! Thanks Bill. ;D

 

[augie]

Um, well, speaking of a dog on the leg, and immature jacks. I once caught a jack coho, and when I picked him up to take out the hook, to release him, he spewed his magic sauce all over my leg and boot. issed: If that's not mature, I don't know what is. :hmmm:

I could be wrong, but I always understood that jacks do spawn and reproduce.

 

[Richard Nixon]

How big was the jack Augie?

 

[Kuma]

Jacks do spawn. It's how DNA moves from spawning year to spawning year to increase genetic diversity in the species that have jacks.

 

[Richard Nixon]

Dam, all my schooling years ago for not, I want my money back! >

 

[professori]

Dam, all my schooling years ago for not, I want my money back! >

A cheque for $14.23 is in the mail! :cheers:

 

[RI4B07]

Having held coho and chinook jacks in my own hands, and squeezed milt out of them into a bowl of eggs from an adult female I can tell you that jacks do in fact spawn.

Just as Japander said, it's a way for nature to keep the gene pool diverse over the years. Also the more jacks there are in a year will give you an indication of what the return of adults will be next year. Lots of jacks, lots of adults the next year.

Some think that Jacks may not spawn wiht one partner, but rather they sneak up beside a couple of adults and release their milt at the same time. I don't know what the success rate of jacks spawning in the wild is, but do know they spawn.

 

[noxcape]

wow the way you described that it sounded kind of kinky lol you know this conversation is something i have always wondered about

 

[Steely]

while all the larger male salmon fight over who is going to spawn with a female, the jacks sneak in and do there there. eace:

 

[hotrod]

Jacks are mother nature's insuance policy. Should the run the following year be wiped out for some reason then the offspring of the jacks are what takes it place to insure that the salmon cycle continues!


Hotrod

 

[Fishaholic]

Have you ever seen a Jacqueline salmon Fishaholic?

Thought they were jills . And yes seen those too only in trout though never a salmon

 

[squaretailer]

They are an insurance measure that get's triggered if there appears to be a shortage of adult males in the spawning population.They are also used as an indicator of the overall health of the population.A small or non exsistent population of jacks in the river means less families and less diversity in the gene pool.

ST

 

[augie]

How big was the jack Augie?

Hey Barskull. The coho jack was about 2-3 pounds, just a little guy. He was dark and even had a hook nose. He was caught on the Island.