The Unknown Basser: 2008 Smoker of the Year Conest entry

A fellow named, um, The Una-Basser (he wouldn’t provide his name), sent in this photo of himself to be entered into our 2008 Smoker of the Year Contest.

U.B. says that he lives in California and, with all the salmon closures this year, he won’t be able to inhabit his favorite perch at the infamous “Wall” in the Nimbus Basin on the American River, where he had been a fixture — and 20-foot leader and bead flossing specialist — for the past decade.

“No Wall means no black beauty kings to submit this year,” he says. “So, I thought I’d enter this wretched, sorry excuse for a fish…though in all honesty, I’d probably never soil the grates of my smoker with one of these things. There’s not enough brine in the world to make one taste good!”

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