Howdy, folks. Here to talk to you about the most abundant (and arguably the most fun) of the five main types of Pacific salmon to catch on a fly rod: the pink salmon.
Let’s get the most obvious thing here out of the way... What’s up with the hump? Well, upon reaching fresh water during their spawning migration, male pink salmon develop a pronounced humped back. The females somehow dodged that evolutionary bullet. This hump grows as a result of a reactive-increase in the amount of connective tissue and the growth of free interneural spines and neural spines. Hence the nickname "humpies". In fact, the scientific name of pink salmon ends with “gorbuscha”, which literally translates to “humpie” in Russian.
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