{"id":111373,"date":"2024-08-09T21:30:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-10T05:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/home\/78th-golden-north-salmon-derby-starts-slow-due-to-flood-cleanup-fishing-conditions\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T16:47:54","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T00:47:54","slug":"78th-golden-north-salmon-derby-starts-slow-due-to-flood-cleanup-fishing-conditions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/2024\/08\/09\/78th-golden-north-salmon-derby-starts-slow-due-to-flood-cleanup-fishing-conditions\/","title":{"rendered":"78th Golden North Salmon Derby starts slow due to flood cleanup, fishing conditions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>This story will be updated throughout the day.<\/em> <\/p>\n<p><strong>Update 5 p.m.: <\/strong>The current leader as of Saturday afternoon is now Cohen Odenheimer, 14, who turned in a 26.6-pound king at the Auke Nu weighing station. He took over the lead from Willie Harris who turned in a 24.6-pound king at the same station during the day.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Original story:<\/strong> The 78th Golden North Salmon Derby is off to a slow start, apparently due to fishing conditions as well as lots of people still cleaning up from this week&rsquo;s record flood, but there were still more than 200 fish turned in on the first day of the three-day event, Shawn Hooton, co-chair of the derby, said Saturday morning.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I wouldn&rsquo;t say it&rsquo;s our slowest year yet, but it&rsquo;s definitely fairly slow comparatively,&rdquo; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Full-scale cleanup of Tuesday&rsquo;s record flooding of the Mendenhall River that damaged more than 100 homes is still ongoing, with a multitude of agencies and volunteers assisting residents in the affected areas, which Hooton said is likely a factor in the slow pace so far. But he said the reports of fishing conditions are also less than optimal.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Most of what I heard was it&rsquo;s pretty slow for this time of year, but hopefully it&rsquo;s going to pick up before the end of derby,&rdquo; he said.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 67 non-scholarship fish were turned in Friday to the three weighing stations, with a 23.3-pound king caught by Shirley Gray-Kekovich and turned in at the Auke Nu station leading at the end of the day. No larger fish had been turned in as of 10 a.m. Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The four heaviest fish were turned in Friday at the Auke Nu station, with the heaviest fish at the Douglas Harbor station being an 18.3-pound king turned in by Sierra Mow and the largest at the Amalga Harbor station a 17.7-pound king caught by Cameron Hotch.<\/p>\n<p>The largest coho salmon caught Friday weighed 14.6 pounds and was turned in at Amalga by Marie Lam.<\/p>\n<p>Hooton said &ldquo;probably more than 100&rdquo; scholarship fish were turned in at the Auke Nu station, and &ldquo;maybe 20 to 30&rdquo; at the Douglas and Amalga stations.<\/p>\n<p>Weather was mixed on Saturday morning with occasional rain sprinkles and patches of sun. The forecast through the end of the derby at 6 p.m. Sunday calls for a chance of rain and winds up to 15 miles per hour.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8226; Contact Mark Sabbatini at mark.sabbatini@juneauempire.com or (907) 957-2306.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>23.3-pound king leads after first day; weekend weather forecast is for a chance of rain. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":717,"featured_media":111374,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1083,1077],"tags":[104,40],"class_list":["post-111373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-outdoors-recreation","category-top-news","tag-fishing","tag-salmon"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>78th Golden North Salmon Derby starts slow due to flood cleanup, fishing conditions - Juneau Empire<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/2024\/08\/09\/78th-golden-north-salmon-derby-starts-slow-due-to-flood-cleanup-fishing-conditions\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"78th Golden North Salmon Derby starts slow due to flood cleanup, fishing conditions - Juneau Empire\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"23.3-pound king leads after first day; 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