Silverdale Resident has One Big Fish Story
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Congratulations are due to Silverdale’s Ray Frederick, a longtime area fisherman who brought in the grandfather of all Puget Sound halibut last weekend during the Kitsap Poggie Club’s annual halibut derby.
The Peninsula Daily News had a good story about his experience along with a photo of Frederick and his 233-pound halibut.
Frederick, a former president of the Poggie Club, has been fishing in Puget Sound saltwater since the early 1950s, but he’d never before encounter a fish like the one that won the derby’s $440 grand prize. But the fact is that few Washington fishermen have. The state record halibut is 288 pounds.
Frederick hooked his big catch last Sunday just west of Point Wilson, off of Port Townsend, while fishing with his partner, Dick McDonald of Bremerton.
The photo that accompanies the story shows Frederick laid out on the bed of his pickup truck alongside his catch. The halibut is just about as long as Frederick is. He told the Peninsula Daily News that it took him about 30 minutes to bring the fish up into the boat; and the club did not have sufficient equipment to weigh the fish when he got it in for official recording (they had to use a scale at a nearby grocery store).
Quite a day for the 76-year-old Fredrick.
— Jeff
Scripps Interactive Newspapers Group
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