An angler on a fishing charter near Algoma on Lake Michigan landed what’s believed to be the biggest salmon caught in Wisconsin in nearly 30 years.
The fisherman from Minnesota was on a Kinn’s Sportfishing boat on July 31st when he caught the salmon, which weighed 40-point-4 pounds and was 44 inches long with a 28-and-a-half inch girth. It’s considered the largest chinook caught in Wisconsin waters since another fisherman landed one that weighed almost 45 pounds in 1994. The all-time record for Lake Michigan was set just last year when a fish weighing almost 48 pounds was caught near Ludington, Michigan.
