We might not have libraries here anymore, but you Salmon Trolls are prepped for one storied salmon-fishing season in the oceans off the Southern Oregon and northern California coasts.

Federal Fish Heads at the Pacific Fishery Management Council today adopted the most liberal season possible for recreational chinook and coho fishing in the ocean here this year.

So liberal, in fact, that you can plan a trolling trip out of Brookings to fish for chinook on Mother’s Day.

Now, what better way to say, “I Love You, Mom” than getting your former Host Organism into a couple bright ‘nooks before she launches that morning’s Continental Breakfast over the charterboat’s transom.

The season breakdown is in The Fish Wrap on Sunday, then regurgitated in the Spring Fishing Guide that stinks up the regular rag on April 14.

But you web-heads get the skinny here first on the season in the Klamath Management Zone, which runs from Port Orford south into California’s Horse Mountain. A.K.A.: our main ports.

The chinook season begins May 5 and runs through Sept. 4, with a daily limit of up to two chinook 24 inches or longer.

Southern Oregon’s recreational coho fishing is lumped in with the Oregon coastal coho season. That opens June 23 and runs until Sept. 4 in the Oregon part of the Klamath Management Zone. However, coho fishing will close earlier if Oregon anglers catch the entire 50,000-coho quota before that date.

NoCal can be called NoCoho. Again, they have no fin-clipped coho season.

Trolling in mid-summer out of Brookings is the best way to add fresh ocean salmon to your Bio-Mass Footprint — That’s the amount of critters you kill and eat in your outdoor lifetime.

That’s true. Go look it up at the library.

Oh, never mind.

Just save a filet for The Fish Hack.

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