Something Smells Foul (Smoker of the Year Contest entry)
November 9, 2007
Ronnie Zebco, who lives in the metropolitan suburbs of Hayfork, CA sent in this Smoker of the Year Contest entry.
Zebco caught this handsome Trinity River Chinook salmon quite by accident.
“I was drifting roe and a Fish Pill for steelhead when this guy bit,” he says. “Okay, so he’s a little on the skinny side, but he’ll smoke…”
I’m thinking Mr. Zebco may be better off using his catch as soup base — or better yet, food for his tomato garden, but what do I know?
We thank Ronnie for submitting this picture, but I’m afraid there’s a slight problem that the judges at the end of the contest may have to take into consideration: This fish was foul-hooked. If you take a close look at the photo, you can see the hook (with roe cluster still intact) is buried in the fish between the ventral and caudal fins. I’m not going to automatically disqualify the fish and declare Mr. Zebco a poacher, but let’s just say the rules committee is looking into the matter…
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