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Flying Fish
Since I’ve been writing so much about fish here’s one more big fish, Alaska Airlines Salmon Thirty Salmon. Personally, I think it’s cool but it looks like billboard-sized evidence of some of the hot water Senator Stevens and his son Ben, our former state senator are in. I guess a half-million bucks is a lot of money for a paint job.
Here is a great close up of the paint job.
Slammin’ More Salmon
For the first time in many years we did the mad dash fishing trip to the Kenai. John and I with friends Matt and Angie left town around three with our rods and coolers. We caught our first sockeye around 7 and fished until 10. We ended up with 9 reds and a half of a silver. (A prop had already tried to filet the other side.) Arrived back home around 3 a.m. this morning. What a blast! It was hot and sunny and hardly anyone was on the river. I don’t know if there are many prettier places to catch big fish.
Fresh, gutted, headed sockeye is $5/pound at Costco. So, each fish we caught is $25-30 each if we had to buy our own. Makes it worth the gas.
Big Fish
We’re accustomed to big fish stories. Summer is filled with salmon and halibut derbies the winners of which receive some pretty serious cash. Well, it seems to be the summer of the big halibut. This week a 340# halibut was hoisted on the scales in Homer. Now, that’s a big fish. I love the metaphors; this one is described as ‘a table for six.’ Now the fisherman has to wait a couple months to find out if he gets to pocket the $40,000 winner’s purse.
UPDATE: Looks like a barn door is bigger than a table for six. A 358# halibut was caught in Homer yesterday.
