Giant salmon lead summer fish parade

[SF Chronicle RSS Feed - Tom Stienstra]

Big fish are like winning lottery tickets. There never seems to be enough to go around. On Wednesday, a poor soul won the salmon lottery, but lost his ticket: At mid-morning, a giant salmon estimated at 50 to 55 pounds was hooked on the Wacky Jacky. But the fish threw the hook and was gone forever. “It was like the 52-pounder we caught back in the day, the biggest fish ever on my boat, took us nearly an hour to land,” said Capt. Jacqueline Douglas. “It’s been a couple of hours since we lost it, came off the hook, and I’m not over it yet.” The giant fish continued the [...]

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