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Willie's Biggest Fish

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Willie's Biggest Fish

"The biggest fish I ever caught was during a commercial fishing opening.

It was the third or fourth time we set the net out and started our drift. Before this drift we were catching about twenty or thirty King salmon a drift and only averaged about twenty-five to thirty pounds. During that last drift we didn't catch as much fish as we did the previous drifts, but while checking the net afterward we found that we caught our biggest King salmon ever.

When the fish collector boat came, they put the fish into the scoop to weigh it first and it weighed sixty-two pounds."

By Willie Fitka Jr.

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