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I thing its one of those triploid fish they modified 15 years ago and released that was not supposed to have the urge to spawn and live forever!!!  

RUMORS OF GIANT SALMON JUST A TALL FISH TALEJohn Husar
CHICAGO TRIBUNERemember when we rubbed our palms a year ago, expecting the first rush of possibly 40-to-60-pound salmon in Lake Michigan?Yes, dear beating heart, Michigan State University's multiyear experiment with "triploid" salmon-those genetically engineered fish designed to exceed the normal four-year life cycle and grow to unprecedented sizes-was about to bear fruit.And then nothing happened.No one caught any big ones. If anything, those triploid whoppers seemed to have disappeared in the greenish waters of Lakes Michigan and Huron. Well, a few were collected by biologists at Michigan's weirs this year, and guess what? Instead of being monsters, they are midgets. One 5-year-old chinook salmon was no more than 18 inches long. In other words, the much-heralded triploid program has turned into a colossal bust."We must have raised $50,000 around here to help Michigan State fund the program," said WGN outdoors broadcaster Bill Cullerton Sr. "I'd really like to know what went wrong."Apparently, the Michigan State process-heat-shocking fertilized eggs to the point where chromosomes are altered-had other effects upon the fish."We saw it right away at our hatchery," said Asa Wright, Great Lakes fisheries expert for the Michigan Department of Natural Resources. "These fish just were not aggressive. For a hybrid to be successful, it has to be very aggressive in terms of seeking food. These fish just didn't seem to have it." Dan Makauskas, an Illinois fishery biologist based in Chicago, said he read a South Dakota study of rainbow trout "that showed the same thing. Those fish actually grew slower."Wright said Michigan no longer pursues its triploid salmon program. "We had 300,000 fish out there that didn't do it," he said. "Of course, it was a bad time to be experimenting with chinook salmon. The onset of bacterial kidney disease undoubtedly killed many of them. There aren't many old salmon in the lake."Wright suggested future experiments might be served better with chemical treatment or genetic breeding than embryonic heat shock.Or maybe we just weren't intended to play God.

Cant wait to see how old this king was. 

I cant say it enough, Genetics, Genetics, Genetics. Selective breeding of the biggest will produce biggest and bigger.

It's a proven process.

Sounds like this fish is now an official State and Great Lakes Record. Old Great Lakes Record was 47.13lbs. from New York in 1991 and was a 4 year old. Beats the old record by 0.76 oz.

Any word how old the new record king is?

Not yet Trent. Bone samples not to the lab yet.

Thanks for the update.

Fun fact: Evidently the fish was taken using a Moonshine mag Raspberry Carbon spoon. Now they can’t be found anywhere. Never fished one but I was seeing a lot of YouTube vids of charter captains always having one or more in their spreads. Good luck or good spoon who knows. A lot are thinking good spoon.

All luck