Two years in the making, George Wambold's perfect summer was topped with a whale of a Kenai king salmon.
Only a day before the July 31 end of the season on the state's most popular salmon stream, Alaska Department of Fish and Game officials say Wambold landed the biggest Kenai king registered with the state trophy fish program this year. It weighed 72 3/4 pounds.
It had a girth of 32-inches, Wambold added, about the waist-size for a pair of pants for your average American male before the obesity epidemic hit.
An angler most of his life, Wambold had never seen such a fish. "It looked the size of an alligator,'' he said...
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