[fishingtheusaandcanada] Bounty hunter lands big fish TheNewsTribune.com Tacoma, WA

 

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RICH LANDERS; The Spokesman-Review Published: May 29th, 2008 01:00 AMPamela Ramsden might now hold the state record for the largest northern pikeminnow caught. She did so on her first attempt at cashing in on the bounty while fishing the Snake River.
On May 13, the Deer Park, Spokane County, hairstylist was trolling a Rapala near Boyer Park in Whitman County when she landed the pending state-record pikeminnow.

 

The 261/4-inch-long fish weighed 7.91 pounds, easily exceeding the 7.36-pound record caught in 2000 in Mason Lake northeast of Shelton.

 

Ramsden and her husband, Brian Ramsden, had already caught six pikeminnows for the initial $4-a-fish reward paid by the Bonneville Power Administration.

 

"And we couldn't get a $4 voucher for the record fish because we wouldn't turn it in," Brian Ramdsen said. "We didn't catch enough fish to pay for the gas this trip, but we might be the only people with an 8-pound pikeminnow mounted on their wall."

 

The Northern Pikeminnow Reward Program debuted in 1991 to reduce predation on migrating salmon and steelhead smolts.

 

In 2006, a Vancouver, Wash., angler earned a record $48,348 during the five-month pikeminnow bounty season.

 

For information on the pikeminnow program, go to www.pikeminnow.org or call, toll-free, 1-800-858-9015.

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