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The Salmon Cookbook
More than 100 recipes for cooking salmon, including special techniques and secrets for poaching, grilling, baking, sautéing and serving this delicious fish!

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Water Temperature Preferences of Salmon and Trout

 
Peek Feeding
Temperature
Active
Temperature
Coho Salmon
54
52-58
Chinook Salmon
54
52-58
Lake Trout
50
44-55
Rainbow Trout
58
50-68
Brown Trout
60
50-70

* Lake Trout - tend to be deeper, if not right on the bottom because of the cooler temperatures they prefer.
** Coho - prefer 50-55 in upper water
*** Chinook - prefer the same temperature range as Coho, but in deeper water
**** Rainbows and Browns - high 50s, generally near the surface

 


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