Big halibut, no ticket
When Ralph Vaughan left the dock on the FV
Restless on Thursday morning, a derby ticket was
the last thing on his mind. It should have been the first.
On a fishing trip aboard Captain Doug Judge's
charter boat. Vaughan hooked a 316.6 pound halibut,
the largest halibut caught so far in August, but he
didn't have a derby ticket. Vaughan's son, Ted, who
was standing nearby with a ticket in his pocket,
came to his father's aid and struggled with the giant
for nearly an hour, but the fish was hooked by the
ticketless angler, so no derby reward came of the
monstrous fish.
"It didn't matter to us." Ted Vaughan said of the
fact that his father hadn't purchased a ticket. "We
were just out there to have the fun of fishing more
than anything else, it was just the fact of pulling
something that big in."
Reprinted Courtesy of Homer Tribune August 21st, 2002
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