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Date Posted: 03:52:14 04/28/04 Wed
Author: Don Johnson
Subject: It happened in the first week of June, 2002, 92 pound king

It happened in the first week of June, 2002, 92 pound king.
This is a true story. 09/26/02

It happened in the first week of June, 2002.

The party Luke and Tom were at was really loud, but when Luke mentioned
that he had seen a really monster king salmon delivered by commercial trollers
the day before, Tom's ears perked up. The two quickly moved to a quieter
part of the house. Luke was a seasonal worker for the ADF&G and happened
to be on the processor dock when the fish arrived on June 6th 2002.
Luke quickly relayed that the salmon was being stored at Seafood Processors
Cooperative and Tom then quickly hatched a plan to sneak in and steal the fish.
The two were convinced that showing up at the party with a 92 pound salmon
would really make them the life of the party.

Luke and Tom jumped in the car and off to the processor they went.
The two walked into the plant and removed the giant fish and headed back
to the party. Upon arrival they were correct about their assumptions because
everyone immedately wanted to see a 92 pound king, just because few people
ever get to see a fish of that size. The party lasted to the wee hours and then everyone
finally went home and the big king was placed in a nearby freezer.
The next morning Tom picked up the king and took it home and filleted it out
so that they could have many more parties in the future off this big fish.

Well all good things must come to an end because Seafood Producers Cooperative
put out a $500 reward for someone to turn the crooks in and one of the people who
knew about it ratted them out. Only about 20 people knew about the theft so it must
have been a stampe down to the police station. The cops got the info. they needed
so next they went looking for Tom and Luke. After a brief Sitka police chase scene,
the police had their thieves and Luke was fined $500 and ordered to pay $266 in
restitution and Tom got 150 hours of community service. Luke was also ordered to
write a letter of apology to the processor. Luke said that "he never intended for the
king to be cut up". Must have been another one of those giant commercial
miscommunications! Seafood Processors Cooperative had planned to mount
the 92 pound king until they discovered it missing.

The Kenai River hold about 90 percent of the world records for Pacific salmon
along with the current world record for king salmon. What do you
think the odds are of a 92 pound king salmon swimming around in the Gulf of Alaska,
coming from and therefore eventually returning to the Kenai?
The point is that these Kenai giants are being relentlessly pounded by a commercial
fishing industry which will deny it. That size of a trophy king is enough to fuel the Kenai's entire
sportfish industy with millions of tourist dollars for years into the future but instead it ended
up selling for a couple of hundred dollars. This story would have never seen the light
of day if a couple of guys had not committed a sorry case of burglary on a really beautiful king.

When you hear a commercial fisherman telling how he is the only commercial
gear type which just doesn't seem to catch very many king salmon, try telling
them about the 92 pound king salmon which was caught and killed by commercial trollers,
the first week of June, 2002.

Don Johnson
ccpwow@gci.net

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