There are two Pacific Salmon species that have been transplanted successfully in eastern waters – the chinook and coho salmon. The chinook salmon, also called a “King” salmon, can be stocked within six months after raising them in a hatchery. It grows to sizes of over forty pounds. The coho salmon are much smaller, reaching weights that average from two to eight pounds. They require about fourteen months of hatchery time and generally return to the streams where they were released in 3 years to spawn and die. The Coho reproduces naturally in some streams. There’s also the Atlantic salmon, flies for which are included on a separate section of this website, are another one of the most prized fish to catch using Salmon flies.As a general rule, salmon flies don’t interest salmon from a hunger standpoint. When they begin their spawning migration, they focus on spawning rather than eating. A good salmon fly will at least interest a salmon and hopefully irritate it enough that it will strike the fly out of anger. Over the years there’s thousands of flies that have been developed for catching these fish. We’re selecting what we think are the best flies. These flies have proven over and over that they are very productive in catching large Great Lakes Coho and Chinook salmon.