I just now tried to figure it out without looking at your outcome, and I independently came up with the same thing. 「サケも獲り放題だったし」
It makes sense since (as I’m learning right now) 放題 attaches to a masu-stem verb, as is the case here, meaning “to do [verb] to one’s heart’s content”.
Edit: 獲り = とり
Just wanted to post to say that I’ve finally caught up again, though only sort of. Due to work and family pressures the past couple weeks I had to stop doing line by line translations for myself and just read as much as I could without the vocab sheet/a dictionary/Excel handy. I’ll go back and fill it in later, so now I have two bookmarks in the book. On the upside, I’m surprised at how little I’m missing? There was some dialogue in Grizzly’s chapter between him and Polar Bear that I didn’t quite catch, but most of this has been unexpectedly easy and enjoyable.
I guess I just wanted to say thanks to everyone for their insight and helping me have the confidence to try reading.
I’m totally not gonna read the chapters only today 
So you’re fine 
And I’m glad that you have that confidence \o/ Sometimes I just realise that I’m reading some weird squiggles and here I am complaining that I may not fully understand some grammar 
:DDD And we’re reading the native manga now, but also the one with puns /o/
I also thought it was a bit too much for Absolute beginner, but we’re still reading it /o/ Even if some people left because it was too difficult, they can always go back to the threads when they want to read it \o/ Just reminding about that again:3
It’s meant for panda-kun trying really hard to be cool and wild like Grizzly!
In this context, it means something like:
(Not sure if you look cool or wild but) I understand how hard you’ve tried.
