36lb King

[mihunter]

One of my good friends just sent me this pic of a pig of a king he got this afternoon 7/12. He took it on a white echip flasher/white fly. He says it was 36lbs on the marina scale, take it for what its worth, I didn't see it in person. He said it took the line counter to 863ft. Pretty cool!!
http://www.michigan-sportsman.com/photopost/data/531/medium/salmon2.jpg
http://www.michigan-sportsman.com/photopost/data/531/medium/salmon_2.jpg

[Alpha Buck]

Is that from Lake O? What a pig!!!

[Oldgrandman]

Wow, I would say it has 10 lbs. on the biggest salmon I ever landed. Definite trophy, nice going.
It would be interesting to know where it was caught, by the looks of it, it was caught near shore some where.
Wild guess, was it near Tobermorey Canada?
And can I go fishing with him? ;) Just kidding.

[Nailer]

According to his gallery it is from Lake Michigan
Nice pig, I just wish I could break the 20 pound mark.

[ausable_steelhead]

Even if it isn't 36lbs, it's well over 20. Very nice fish.

[salmon_slayer06]

I bet it was taken in Northern part of Lake MI. Guys have been getting 30's since spring. I believe it. Sounds about right to me. That fish would have been 40 come fall.

[Overdew]

Very nice king. Yup it is a 30 pounder. Did he say what it hit on.

[mrymar]

http://www.sportsmensshows.com/cgi-bin/salmonderby/webapp.pl?rm=show&page=report

37 pounder taken on Lake O just this past week.

[Erik]

That fish is a hog!
I want to get one like that this weekend :)

[Getaway]

Awesome fish.

That don't look like any Michigan port I've been to...

I'll bet Lake O.

[cp200]

Awsome fish looks like Frankfort from the pictures.

[Section 8]

Frankfort for sure. East Shore marina.

Nice King!

[BITE_ME_TOO]

Here is a 33.54 lbs king caught in the Great Ontario Salmon Derby out of Lake Ontario simply for camparison:

http://www.michigan-sportsman.com/photopost/data/531/33_54lbsKing.jpg

Weather it is 36 lbs or not- still a great fish;)

Jeff- BMT

[Baydawg]

Let’s say his middle finger is 4” long.

By the looks of the pic I would say that fish is 12” from the belly to the back.

If we add 4” for thickness…

We could hypothetically say the following…

12” + 12” + 4” = 28” ~Girth
39” = ~Length

((28 * 28) * 39) / 800 = an estimated 38.2 pounds

Certainly not exact, but a good estimate?

[BFG]

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Top fish is 28#, bottom is 30#. Door peninsula on 7-10-06.


Anyone care to talk about 12# test w/ clean spoons off your riggers now???


BFG

[BFG]

Doh...guess that didn't work...


The pics were on the message screen...hmm...


BFG

[bignoccursg]

I saw a 30+ pound fish last year at a bait shop in the UP. I took the guys picture holding it. It was a monsterous fish but the picture sure didnt look very big a week later when I downloaded it to my computer screen.

[BFG]

Let's try this again...


http://www.michigan-sportsman.com/photopost/data/531/30pds_web.jpg
BFG


This is the 30#'er.

[BFG]

And here's the 28#'er...

http://www.michigan-sportsman.com/photopost/data/531/Big_Salm_e-m.jpg

For comparison purposes only.....no matter....still awesome fish all around.


BFG

[gomer]

Guys have been getting 30's since spring.

May I ask what you are smoking and if I can have some?:lol: :lol:

[Bowfin1]

Wow, I must be fishing the wrong ports because I haven't heard of any of the ports here in Michigan with fish over 30 or even close. I hope, however, that there are 30 pounders out there! The biggest I have heard about is a little over 25 so I guess 30 isn't too far fetched, but as Gomer has highlighted, these fish are rare!!!

[Far Beyond Driven]

Look at the results of the South Haven, Holland, Grand Haven, Ludington tournaments. Granted these are southern ports and earlier in the year, but you're looking at 100's of boats with 1000's of fish weighed in and other than Ludington I don't think 20# has been broken.

Holland big fish was a brown.

We had a 13.8# the weekend of South Haven, that would have been like the 4th biggest fish in the 333.

FBD, Holland, MI

[Brian S]

Here's the standings from the Frankfort Tackle Box

1st: Mike Carroll, 21 lb 14 oz, 6/19/06

2nd: Chris Hettinger, 20 lb 4 oz, 6/14/06

3rd: Keith Odzinan, 18 lb 3 oz, 6/27/06

Nothing close to 30 there.

[gomer]

FBD,

I think you mean Manistee, not Ludington. There hasn't been a pro/am there yet this summer (weekend after this weekend). But yes, that was the only pro/am this summer to have a salmon over 20lbs weighed and there were only a handful and none over 22lbs.

Brian,

How up to date is that? I would HAVE to believe that there has been some bigger fish caught in the past 2.5 weeks...

[BFG]

"37 pounder taken on Lake O just this past week."

And to think....when I used to fish the Rogers City Salmon tournament back in the mid-late 90's, their leader board used to look just like the one on the link.

If you didn't have a fish over 27#, you could keep fishing.....

I saw a legit 33 and 37 weighed at the fish cleaning station two nights before the tourney in 1998. You want to talk about pigs....wow....

Great news is that if you look back at fishing reports and posts from the last two years on LM....nothing comes close to the pics that have been posted here from 2006....

And I like that...




BFG

[Far Beyond Driven]

Thanks for the correction Gomer.

Ludington would be coming up shortly.

Maybe we'll see 25# at that one?

FBD, Holland, MI

[Brian S]

gomer, looks like those are the biggest fish through the end of June

[Still Wait'n]

May I ask what you are smoking and if I can have some?:lol: :lol:


Gomer, Look who the post is from. :lol:

[Fletch09]

Nice fish, and no offense, but no way that goes 30. I'd guess 22-23.

FWIW I heard a fish weighing 30 and some change was weighed at Solberg's in Manistee this week.

[gomer]

Maybe we'll see 25# at that one?

I'd be almost willing to bet that big fish will be at least 28lbs...

[Hi Ho Silver_Joe]

I bet it was taken in Northern part of Lake MI. Guys have been getting 30's since spring. I believe it. Sounds about right to me. That fish would have been 40 come fall.

SS_06 Don't you ever learn??? :rolleyes: :coco: 30 lb in the spring was almost unheard of even in Lk. Michigan's glory years. :16suspect

[caznik]

I think it is Frankfort to.

[riverman]

I'd be almost willing to bet that big fish will be at least 28lbs...

Im thinking larger than that with all the feed this year. Wasn't last years big fish 26lbs?

[pikedevil]

yeah big fish was a random 26-27 pounder but then they dropped down to like 18-22 pounders for the rest of the big fish spots.

[Oldgrandman]

I am 6' 2" about 250 there, 12 years ago. This September river fish WEIGHED 26 lbs for what its worth. Any ways I thought the other one looked bigger. Hard to tell I guess.

http://www.michigan-sportsman.com/photopost/data/531/medium/my_big_king.jpg

[Section 8]

Your scale must have been off. No way thats a 26 pounder. Looks more like 16 or 17 at best.

[ausable_steelhead]

Man, this site is getting ridiculous, now all of a sudden, everybody's lieing about their fish. Why don't you doubters all go back to TSS where you belong, and stay off this site, as this is a site for FISHERMAN, not whiny babies who are skeptic about everyone else's catches.

[Overdew]

Man, this site is getting ridiculous, now all of a sudden, everybody's lieing about their fish. Why don't you doubters all go back to TSS where you belong, and stay off this site, as this is a site for FISHERMAN, not whiny babies who are skeptic about everyone else's catches.

Dude relax those are some very harsh words. Can you say opinions :lol: I learned my lesson a long time ago.

[Carpmaster]

What is with Us Fisherman that makes us question everything we see from how someone is doing something to how big their fish is/was.....I think that the Salmon involved in the topic is definitely a 30 pound fish which is an awesome fish.....and the 26 pounder, I feel that is all of that!

The bickering is exactly why I left TSS so let's get along!!

[riverman]

Your scale must have been off. No way thats a 26 pounder. Looks more like 16 or 17 at best.

Yep. that ripe hen would weigh about that without the 6 to 8 lbs of eggs she hasn't dropped. Nice fish out of a river and back when he caught it 20 to 30 lbers were the norm. We used to laugh and make jokes about anything smaller. Some of you guys are in for a real ass whooping if fish like that ever hit our rivers again.

[Getaway]

All right, thats enough.