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Posted by Robert Woolsey, KCAW | Jun 1, 2021
Patrick Davis is in the lead for the $6,000 grand prize with a 35-pound 8 ounce fish, but his lead far from safe. On Saturday a fisherman who wasn’t in the derby pulled up to the barge and weighed his 47-pound 8 ounce fish! (SSA photo)
After one weekend of fishing, the Sitka Salmon Derby is still a horse race so to speak.
A 36-pounder is at the top of the leaderboard, but the smart money says there are bigger fish out there, after a non-ticket holder stopped by to weigh his 48-pound fish.
Note: The 66th Annual Sitka Salmon Derby continues over one more weekend, June 5th and 6th. John McCrehin has a special thanks for the people who helped him on the barge over the past three days: His daughters Marsha and Melissa, Randy Gluth, Darryl Ault, and Dennis from Sitka Sound Seafoods.
Ketchikan king salmon derby canceled due to concern over wild fish stocks
Posted by Eric Stone | May 11, 2021
Chase Hanis with his winning king salmon in 2017, the last time Ketchikan held a king salmon derby. (Ketchikan CHARR King Salmon Derby photo)
Ketchikan’s summer king salmon fishing derby is canceled due to concern about low returns.
It would have been the first king salmon derby in Ketchikan since 2017. The two summers after that, organizers switched to coho due to poor forecasts for Chinook. The pandemic led to the cancellation of 2020’s derby and just about everything else.
Michael Briggs, who coordinates the annual fishing competition for Ketchikan’s Cabaret, Hotel, Restaurant and Retailers Association, says organizers were planning to hold the derby over two weekends in mid-to-late June.
KETCHIKAN (KDN) â For the first time since 2017, Ketchikan will have a king salmon derby.
 Ketchikan CHARR King Salmon Derby coordinator Michael Briggs said via a phone call Friday that the derby is set to be held on June 18, 19 and 20, in addition to June 25, 26 and 27.
The top prize will be half of its previous amount, at $5,000, he said, and the list of other prizes still is being compiled.
Ketchikanâs king salmon derby had been a 70-year tradition until 2018, when concerns about wild king salmon stocks in the region prompted the state to curtail sport harvests of king salmon through the mid-June time frames. The Ketchikan CHARR Salmon Derby Committee organized derbies for silver salmon in 2018 and 2019. However, the 2020 derby for silver salmon was canceled because of factors related to the novel coronavirus pandemic.
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