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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

DULUTH – As spring fishing ramps up on Lake Superior, anglers are hitting the water in pursuit of steelhead, lake trout, coho and chinook salmon. To help protect wild steelhead, Minnesota Sea ...

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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 ...

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.