Our latest 2010 Smoker of the Year Contest entry comes to us via time machine. Normally, we like to keep things a little more current, but when you get your mitts on a photo of Big Fred Contaoi from the fourth grade, you just gotta run with it!
Here’s the Big Fella early in his career or raping and pillaging the Eel River drainage, with a black beauty. I’m sure the folks were stoked we he dragged that one home! Of course, those of us with similarly dark pasts, should cast no stones. Just take a look at some of my own hall of fame smokers HERE. You won’t be disappointed!
Big Little Fred (2010 Smoker of the Year Contest entry)
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Big Fred, you are my leader in the clubhouse for “Smoker of the Year.” It’s gonna take some fish (and fisherman) to beat that!
The decline of the Eel River fall-run is one of the great tragedies in CA fisheries that doesn’t get nearly enough press. One of my all-time great fishing memories is getting absolutely schooled by a monster Eel River king several falls ago hooked on and float and a prawn down in tidewater. I literally went straight home and ordered a beefier Loomis…
“Rancid”