Usually when we talk about mink size we say anything over 23 inches in a big mink. Last year I caught one that could have went 27, but I left at 26 because there is no bigger size than 2X. Unfortunately I skinned it for the fur market before looking into other options. This year I caught another jumbo that has been in the freezer and am finally getting around to thinking about doing something with it. What are the best options? How do you measure a whole mink? It weighs 5.25 lbs and is great shape!

What does a big mink weigh?

Probably a ranch mink...that escaped

That's what someone told me last time on here. I really doubt it as I am in Alaska way away from any history of ranched mink.

A big one around his is a 3 lber.

5 lb would be a huge mink here.I have heard from trappers in Alaska that some mink there are very fat.Around the coast I believe.

Your Best option would be to skin it,Flesh it and Tan it. Then PM me with a Price. If it was me though, I would get a Body Mount of that Minkzilla!

This one is a chunk, but I am in the interior.






Not interested in a mount for myself and have the jumbo from last year hanging on my wall. I want to try to sell it.

Same deal as the otters in southeast Alaska. Goldberg used to be the dominant buyer in Alaska and I once upon a time saw his Alaska otter bin while up in Seattle. They averaged a third bigger on average over what I am accustomed to in Oregon.

That really is not a big mink. That is a fat mink.
I used to come across them here, and when shipping to Canada, they always graded as "ranch mink".

It would logically be that as Kodiak bear are larger than normal Grizzly, that the high fat content of salmon and seals, would produce a larger mink, but it is about fur quality, and in that, it is about a fur buyer not grading it as a ranch mink, instead of a wild mink. But as they are not worth that much, it is like having a million dollars on Gilligan's Island.

Where I trap, 4 to 4.25 lb bucks are actually quite common when the rut is going. Not guesses—-I weighed them. The 2nd mink I ever caught was 4.25 lbs, and it’s mounted above my desk.


I’ve never caught one that big. 5.25 lbs would be a monster imo

Good to know! Thanks!

I have nevah weighed a mink ...

Thats a chunk!!!

Caught one this past season it weighed 5.5 had quite a few 4 to 4.5 pounds big bucks from iowa

I've never weighed one either.

I never weighed a mink either,but I weighed a lot of fish and know the difference between a 3 lb'er and a 5 lb'er without weighing them all.

Nice Mink
That’s a Hawg!

nice mink good luck selling it

Nice one!