It was James Quashnick’s first year fishing in the annual Sportsman’s Association coho derby and he started off strong, landing a 12.65-pound silver.
He said he was in first place on the hand-written leaderboard that sits in the Alaska Department of Fish and Game’s office for about two weeks.
“I was feeling pretty confident, but I knew somebody was going to come knock it off of the leaderboard,” he said.
