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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