This monster Chinook salmon was just caught in B.C.
Tristin Hopper
Even in an area renowned as a mystical “lost world” of monster salmon — this salmon was particularly monstrous.
When held aloft by Ted Walkus, a hereditary chief of the Wuikinuxv First Nation, its tail nearly brushed the ground. The animal’s jaws were large enough to encompass a human head. And it weighed in at 50 pounds (22.7 kg) — and that’s after two weeks of crash weight loss due to spawning.
“That salmon would have been even more impressive to see two months prior when it was in the ocean and silver bright,” said Sid Keay with the Percy Walkus Hatchery in Rivers Inlet, B.C.
Read More: nationalpost.com/news/canada/this-monster-chinook-salmon-was-just-caught-in-b-c
Even in an area renowned as a mystical “lost world” of monster salmon — this salmon was particularly monstrous.
When held aloft by Ted Walkus, a hereditary chief of the Wuikinuxv First Nation, its tail nearly brushed the ground. The animal’s jaws were large enough to encompass a human head. And it weighed in at 50 pounds (22.7 kg) — and that’s after two weeks of crash weight loss due to spawning.
“That salmon would have been even more impressive to see two months prior when it was in the ocean and silver bright,” said Sid Keay with the Percy Walkus Hatchery in Rivers Inlet, B.C.
Read More: nationalpost.com/news/canada/this-monster-chinook-salmon-was-just-caught-in-b-c
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