Resident Robert Clay caught the second largest fish in the coho derby.
John Austin, 67, of White Rock, British Columbia, won the third annual Haines Sportsman’s Association 2019 Silver Salmon Derby with a 14.3-pound coho.
Austin took home a $1,000 prize from the sportsman’s association along with a Lamiglass fly rod from Outfitter Sporting Goods. He’s been fishing in Haines for the last 37 years, he said.
Austin caught the…
