Kanektok Kid

That was one mighty big fish! I cried out,"Holy S**t" the first time I saw it on the salmon gallery. Still looking for my first 20+ silver, and its been thirty years!

I think BB's fish weight calculator using a divisor of 775 was pretty close at 29 pounds. It is not unusual for a fish that size to lose 2 pounds in blood loss and dehydration in just a few hours, let alone the day after.

The variations in weight when two different fish have the same girth has a lot to do with what the cross-section of the fish looks like, especially the bucks. If it's a barrel chested, tide fresh wide-body (more circular midsection), it will weigh a lot more than a darkening fish that has slabbed up with a tall ridge back and skinny from side to side (more elliptical midsection).

In any case, nice fish!