Field cards for your phone

Two pictures. Save them to your photos and they work on the water with no signal, no app and no screenshot to squint at. Press and hold a card to save it.

iPhonePress and hold, then Add to Photos.

AndroidPress and hold, then Download image.

PaperThey print two to a page from any browser.

The cards carry marks only. No seasons, limits or closures, because those change in-season and a picture in your camera roll cannot. Check what's open right now before you keep a fish.

Card 1 of 2. Identify BC salmon by the tail: chinook has spots on both lobes, coho on the upper lobe only, pink has big oval blotches, and no spots means sockeye or chum. Then chinook has black gums and coho white gums, and a chum's pupil nearly fills its eye where a sockeye's does not. — **Card 1: name the fish**The tail sorts all five, then the gums and the eye settle the two pairs that get mixed up.Download this card

Card 2 of 2. The five BC salmon in detail with their marks and what each is mistaken for, plus the adipose fin present versus clipped, which is how a hatchery-marked fish is identified. — **Card 2: confirm it, and check wild or hatchery**The five in full, plus the adipose fin check that a lot of openings hang on.Download this card

Drawn for Arnold's Outpost. The marks are checked against the Alaska Department of Fish and Game identification sheet and Fisheries and Oceans Canada. Back to the full guide