Long before dawn on a late September Sunday each year, cars begin to line the streets around the boathouses on Elliott Bay, Seattle’s Harbor, and at Ballard, a northern section of the city. Men and women in rubber boots and mackinaws tote tackle-boxes and rods to the boat ramps.
There are many salmon derbies in the Puget Sound country, but this is the derby, leading to the Fishing World Series and sponsored by The Seattle Times and the city’s leading boathouses. With qualifying rounds, it lasts longer than the baseball season. Five cars are given as top prizes, but those who miss in the major event get one more crack at a prize in the shorter Silver Salmon Derby.
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