Monstrous Chinook Discovered in Battle Creek

A salmon over 50 pounds is considered to be huge, but an 80+ pound salmon is simply monstrous! Hopefully this old salmon had plenty of opportunities to pass on its incredible genetic traits before it died.

“I have counted tens of thousands of salmon during my career, and this is the biggest I have ever seen,” Killam said. “When alive, it could have weighed more than the largest Chinook officially recorded in California, an 88-pound fish caught in the Sacramento River.”

It’s not a world record salmon, but it was an incredible fish!
via LA Times

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November 19, 2008 by Clive Mathias

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4 Comments on “Monstrous Chinook Discovered in Battle Creek...”

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  • avatar Jonathon Marshall
    3 years, 2 months ago #

    Huge! Looks pretty heavy too!

  • avatar Clive Mathias
    3 years, 2 months ago #

    Or it just smells really bad! Or both!

  • avatar Adrian
    3 years, 2 months ago #

    I think you said it best! simply monstrous! That is one big fish!!!

  • avatar chris
    3 years, 2 months ago #

    Good lord! It’s monster week at fishing fury! Killer frogs, invisible cephalopods and this thing would like give me a heart attack if I caught it!

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