Skipper raves about girl’s salmon catch, says ‘fish should fear her’

A 15-year-old girl landed a 29.6-pound Chinook salmon and had the skipper of KingFin Charters raving about her fishing skills in making the impressive catch.

Olivia Bukowski caught the huge salmon while fishing Lake Michigan last weekend. She obviously knows what she’s doing.

“If you are a fish, you should definitely fear her,” Capt. Dan Wheeler of KingFin Charters told the Chicago Sun-Times.

“She would not let anyone take the rod from her or even let them touch it. She kept the rod up the whole time and worked the fish perfectly. She had already caught a few coho that morning without losing one and was ready to go when this beast hit.

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“I have seen teenage boys and some men crumble on fish half this size. Definitely a catch I will never forget and a story I will be using for many years to come to put teenage boys to shame.”

Wheeler weighed the fish on a digital scale and wished it had hit the 30-pound mark.

“I wanted it to be 30 so bad, but it is what it is,” he said.