Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. Of course, it was one of those rare sunny & warm days in coastal Alaska…and the sun beat down on that fish for 7 hours before it was officially weighed.There’s no telling how much weight the fish lost to dehydration but the king was probably pushing the 100-pound mark when it was fresh!!
But its not an IGFA world record because it was commercially caught in a net.
Anderson’s king salmon weighed in at 97 pounds, four ounces — a rod-and-reel world record that still stands.
4 … The mammoth Chinook was nearly 5 feet long and had an amazing 37.5-inch girth! Three times Anderson reeled the fish up to the side of the craft, but it was too large to haul in. A twenty pound fish is a trophy and usually measures over 40 inches in length. They may succumb to the rigors of the journey but many return to spawn again. Anderson’s king salmon weighed in at 97 pounds, four ounces — a rod-and-reel world record that still stands.For the rest of Anderson’s life — he died in 2003 — he was introduced to people as “the man who caught the world-record salmon.” Sometimes, for short, Anderson’s memorable catch was referred to as “the big fish,” with everyone knowing which fish was being talked about.Today, the mount of Anderson’s record catch is on display at the Soldotna Visitors Association building. They rushed it to a scale in town where onlookers who had heard tell of a giant catch were already gathered. For the rest of Anderson’s life — he died in 2003 — he was introduced to people as “the man who caught the world-record salmon.”.
The fish gods were with him that day! That fish was commercially caught and is the true largest king salmon ever recorded.
We … Even the Sacramento in California has produced kings to 88 pounds in recent times and may have had even larger ones historically.In 2001, a German tourist caught and released a 99.1-pound Chinook on B.C.’s Skeena River, so there’s still a chance.Good old Les !! Big fish, they thought. I can be contacted at Not going to mention any names but anyone that knew my husbands father knows who we are talking about.I found a Zippo lighter that is engraved ” World Record Salmon 92 lbs.” How can I find the rightfull owner?
World Record Salmon World Records were Meant to be Broken At about 7:00 am on May 17th, 1985 Les and his fishing partner, Bud Lofstedt, tied into the lunker at Pillars Drift on the Kenai River. Anderson and partner Bud Lofstedt were fishing for early-season king salmon on the Kenai River, the world-famous Alaska salmon stream, when Anderson hooked up for the fight of his life.Anderson, 68 at the time, was using a spin-n-glo and salmon eggs, and the powerful chinook the bait attracted had the muscle to pull Anderson around in his little boat. The world record Coho weighed in at 15.08 kg (33 lbs. I have many hours on the river and have had a few big ones get awayWorld records… in Pacific salmon are made in British Columbia waters… “Heintz Wichmann’s 92 pound salmon came from the Skeena river”.I’m in a restaurant in Seattle and they have a pic of a teddy roosevelt looking guy that caught a 124 lb fish. That gotta be a recordMy husbands father (who is now deceased) did the taxidermy work on that fish in the 1970s while working for Klineburger Brothers in Seattle (Think it was Jonas Brothers back then). The fish of everyone’s dreams was caught by Soldotna auto dealer Les Anderson early on the morning of May 17, 1985, much to his own shock. Before the dams, the Columbia River was reported to have 100 pounders as did Washington’s Elwah River. Clay Carter retired to Ketchum in the 70′s to live the sporting life. Fishing World Records Fisherman's View welcome you to the Fishing World Records. He sold a few reproductions out of the mold to sea food restaurants in different places. But they didn’t know if it was the biggest king of all. You can stop in and pay homage to the record king salmon at the Anderson’s 97-4 is the official record, but there have been even larger undocumented catches.
The Story of the World Record King Salmon. The largest fish grow to over thirty pounds -steelhead of this size are record class.