Austin Stoltenberg, 12, of Cherry, reeled in this 12.36 pound, 33 3/4-inch long coho salmon while fishing on Lake Superior just off Duluth on June 1.

A state record coho salmon was caught in Lake Superior last month. The Minnesota DNR says David Cichosz caught the 10-pound, 14-ounce fish on Sept. 4 during a charter fishing trip with his wife.

And because Lake Superior coho historically didn’t get really big, and because they taste great, many misidentified steelhead smaller than 26 inches are kept.

Technically, a new state coho record had been submitted to the DNR days earlier on Sept. 2, according to the Duluth News Tribune. That 10.06-pound coho was also caught from Lake Superior.

The record for Kings was set in 1989 by two anglers — one on Lake Superior, and the other in the tributary Poplar River — who both caught fish weighing in at exactly 33 pounds, 4 ounces.

The Lake Superior record coho weighed less than half that, 12.31 pounds and was caught in 2024 off Duluth, Minnesota. Cohos are caught in much greater number in Lake Michigan, too.

Unfortunately, he died in 2015. For years now, Vince has been saying how much he’d like to drag Ron’s lake trout fishing tackle out of storage and give a little big-water fishing a whirl.

A state record coho salmon was caught last month in Lake Superior. Angler David Cichosz caught the 10-pound, 14-ounce fish on Sept. 4 during a charter fishing trip with his wife, according to the ...

The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources certified a state record in the capture of a 10-pound, 14-ounce coho salmon from Lake Superior in St. Louis County, breaking a 53-year record.