Pink Salmon

Oncorhynchus gorbuscha

Also called 'humpies,' pink salmon are a naturalized Great Lakes species (accidentally introduced from Ontario stockings in 1956) that now spawn in Lake Superior tributaries on odd and even years. The smallest of Michigan's salmon.

Seasonal Activity

Best Techniques

• fly fishing in rivers
• small spoons
• spinners
• drifting yarn flies

Top Baits

• small pink flies
• small spoons
• yarn
• spawn
• tiny spinners

Michigan state record: 3.75 lbs, Carp River (Mackinac Co.), 1987