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I am not one for taking pictures of Chinook in the rivers. That said I will make an exception for this one. After work tonight I hit the river with some friends. We caught several fresh Cohos and a couple of Steelhead and browns. At the end of the evening a hit a Chinook like we used to see regularly back in the 80’s. Since I haven’t seen one this size in a couple of decades I thought I would share.
43” length x 24.25” girth. On line calculator I used had it just a hair under 33lbs. IMO it was just about dead on as I had guessed 32 or so before measuring and using the calculator.
Hopefully you can see I was t straight arming this one, not that I could if I wanted to anyway. 😂
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WOW!!Congrats!!!! Great fishes! What a tank! I remember those days when 30#er’s weren’t that uncommon. PS, Don’t fire your camera man, those are wonderful photos!! 🙂👍
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That is quite a fish. The average person may go for their daily walk by that spot and just see a stream. You never know what monsters lurk just under the surface. Great pictures.
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that is a beauty for sure, no much white on it so must be fairly fresh in the river. Like others I can remember getting big ones in a river, what I fight, but don't think I ever got one that big.
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Those teeth are gnarly! What a beast. Crazy to know all those spawning salmon are doomed once they do the deed. Salmon must eat soooooo much to grow that fast!
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nice fish wish we saw those size river run fish on the georgian bay tribs that would mean larger class fish still swimming around congrats on your catch
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Big Chinook, Like back in the 80’s
