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I might as well chime in. In the left picture his left hand is over the adipose fin and you can see a fork in the tail. The picture on the right, the tail looked flat because of the way it sits in the cooler. When I zoom in, I see an adipose fin. If it was a brown it would have spots on its operculum. From what I understood about salmonids, only brown trout and Atlantic salmon have spots on their operculums. I am going with big Coho. 

With this much debate, I was expecting to see a Bud Light can in the cooler…

I get it SouthShore!  Lol

Clearly a Boho.

MC_angler wrote:

The scale loss is definitely weird... but it's got a square tail , and no coho has that. The head/mouth also says brown

Then there's the matter of the adipose clip it's sporting - no coho stocked in the past 6 years have adipose clips, whereas Wisconsin is AD-clipping their seeforellen browns

Ben, 
is it possible that a   Alantic salmon found it’s way into Lake Michigan? Looks like one in a few online pics.
 

The finished product was smoked and is in the refrigerator.  I’ll take a close look at the skin for spots tonight.  I’m leaning towards the coho side right now but that tail was very square, even if some of us believe the pics are warping perception.  It was never really thought to be a coho in the boat.  Despite the smoke it still has that orange color:

Steelie wrote:

MC_angler wrote:

The scale loss is definitely weird... but it's got a square tail , and no coho has that. The head/mouth also says brown

Then there's the matter of the adipose clip it's sporting - no coho stocked in the past 6 years have adipose clips, whereas Wisconsin is AD-clipping their seeforellen browns

Ben, 
is it possible that a   Alantic salmon found it’s way into Lake Michigan? Looks like one in a few online pics.

 

There's an atlantic or two caught every year in southern Lake Michigan. Probably more that never get noticed. But atlantic salmon don't have the maxilla extending past the eye, unlike the fish in the picture