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Wow! Nice fish!

Awesome fish they are getting some big ones on the WI side also when we were up in Bailey's Harbor this weekend a guy a couple slips over got one 29.4 lb

Never say never. Never thought I'd see a 34+ salmon from Lake Michigan again.

Big fish are ridiculous recently - saw a Fb post of a 36-pound brown trout out of Sheboygan today...and there was that 37 laker out of Michigan City.

If we didn't know better. you'd think the immediate future of fishing on the big lake is looking up

That's a good point dogsbestfriend: it does make the question a worthy one when you ask how a king got that big in 4 years if there's so little food to eat out there? You'd think a fish that big was too fat, slow and old to keep up with the very few baitfish he got lucky enough to chase before he became winded and hit the couch!!

The kings are bigger because you're starting to see the impacts of the reduction of 2013 coupled with some actual alewife reproduction last year. This is the intended affect of the chinook reductions, to build back alewife populations. Building back alewife populations means more food to go around for the remaining fish. If it continues working we'll see more and more big fish

Less predators = more food for the fewer adults out there. I don't mind the lower number adults as long as they are worth it when you hook one...I'll take a chance at a over 30+ king maybe even 40lb king over a bunch of 10 to 12lb small mature fish. With Natural reproduction around 70%, I believe you'll see the King population fluctuate naturally with YOY alewive populations.