{"id":21996,"date":"2022-08-27T21:53:04","date_gmt":"2022-08-28T01:53:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/?p=21996"},"modified":"2022-08-30T18:51:31","modified_gmt":"2022-08-30T22:51:31","slug":"episode-630-fish-derby-port-credit-agust-27-2022-the-hunt-for-the-largest-predator-in-the-great-lakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/?p=21996","title":{"rendered":"EPISODE 630 FISH DERBY, PORT CREDIT, AGUST 27, 2022: THE HUNT FOR THE LARGEST PREDATOR IN THE GREAT LAKES"},"content":{"rendered":"
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EPISODE 630    FISH DERBY, PORT CREDIT, AGUST 27, 2022: THE HUNT FOR THE LARGEST PREDATOR IN THE GREAT LAKES<\/div>\n

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SOMEWHERE OUT THERE,  BENEATH THE SURFACE,  IS A HUGE AND VERY UGLY PREDATOR<\/div>\n

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SOMEWHERE OUT THERE ARE 47 FISHBOATS<\/div>\n

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SOMEWHERE DEEP DOWN OUT THERE IS A GIANT HUNGRY PREDATOR SALMON<\/div>\n

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SOMETIME THIS AUGUST 27 MORNING, THE TWO WILL MEET<\/div>\n

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Dateline: Dawn, August 27<\/div>\n
Somewhere under the surface of Lake Ontario\u2026perhaps 3 miles off the Port<\/div>\n
Credit coast there is a huge salmon. He or she is just waking up 200 feet below the<\/div>\n
surface.  This hungry beast has spent the night resting among  perhaps a thousand <\/div>\n
kin.  They are the children of wild Pacific salmon let loose in Lake Michigan to gobble<\/div>\n
up the alewives that had by 1964 taken over the Great Lakes. One man changed<\/div>\n
the Great Lakes forever when he let loose salmon fingerlings in the waters of Lake Michigan<\/div>\n
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The story of Howard Tanner is appended below.  <\/div>\n

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This photo essay celebrates the Port Credit fish derby of August 27, 2022 when 47 teams<\/div>\n
of fishermen coughed up the cash to fund their plan to find the  largest fish hiding in the<\/div>\n
dark waters off the coast of the quaint and booming village of Port Credit<\/div>\n
in the City of Mississauga.<\/div>\n

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The search began in the dark hours of early morning and ended sharply at 12 noon when<\/div>\n
all the 47 fishbouats brought their fish to the weigh Inn station.  The winner received<\/div>\n
about $11,000.   Did they catch the biggest salmon predator living in the Great Lakes?<\/div>\n
i have no idea.  But they caught some giants.<\/div>\n

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The largest caught was lured from the jumble of sleeping predators by the flashes<\/div>\n
of sunlight on lethal fish lures.  Lures that looked like alewives.<\/div>\n

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The story is much bigger than this snippet.  The story has been told in earlier episodes.<\/div>\n
Today just enjoy the faces of the fishermen.  And the angry faces of the salmon.<\/div>\n

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