Clean pata and slit skin (3-4 slits on both sides) without cutting bone. Place in a deep pan with a tight cover. Add water, 7 Up and salt. Bring to a boil after 15 minutes, add baking soda. Baking soda will hasten the softening of the pata's skin.
Hook 4 to 7 pound sockeye salmon from June 10 to August 1, with a peak from July 1 to August 1. Take your pick from 50,000 three to five pound pink salmon from July 20 to August 20. Silver salmon runs of 150,000 strong stop to bite from mid-August to their peak in late September.
Pink Salmon. Red salmon, or Sockeye salmon, and pink salmon are both cold water Pacific fish. Photo Credit Elena Gaak/iStock/Getty Images. Sockeye salmon â sometimes referred to as red salmon â and pink salmon are both cold water fish found in the Pacific Ocean.Unlike Atlantic salmon, Pacific salmon are caught wild in rivers, lakes and estuaries from Oregon to Alaska.oth red salmon and pink salmon are available canned, but are also frequently sold as frozen fillets or steaks or smoked, and fresh during certain times of the year. Sockeye salmon, Oncorhynchus nerka, is one of the species of salmon found in the Pacific Ocean that belongs to the genus Oncorhynchus.