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Originally posted by grandpa2:
In this photo the fish looks bigger than the girl....I think in the Kasilof the fish are typically 20-30#.
That's a bonafide wild late-run (ie July) Kasilof king! They are every bit as big as their Kenai cousins with similar run-timing. Just a much smaller run that thankfully doesn't get near the pressure of the lower Kenai.

The "average" early run Kasilof springer nowadays is more likely to be a 10-20# hatchery runt, but the rare clipped fish will go all the way to 40#-plus. Before hatchery production was ramped up, the average wild fish in the early run was 25-30#, and you could count on a handful of 40# plus every season.
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