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BY CHRIS MCDANIEL PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
PORT ANGELES — Catching a 177-pound halibut might seem like a fish tale to some, but Mike Constant of Port Angeles had the proof Thursday swinging from a scale in the parking lot of Swain’s General Store. Constant, 58, said he caught the halibut after a 45-minute struggle with the behemoth in Freshwater Bay. “We ripped one harpoon out and got him with a second one,” a beaming Constant said while onlookers admired his catch as it was being weighed at the store at 602 E. First St. Constant said he used a Rainshadow rod — a brand made by Batson Enterprises of Sequim — and herring bait to hook the beast at about 11:30 a.m. in 180 feet of water. Constant began his fishing expedition at dawn Thursday.
His largest fish This is the largest fish he has caught in waters off the North Olympic Peninsula — the second weighing in at 168 pounds — and the second largest he has
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Mike Constant of Port Angeles shows off a 177-pound halibut during a weigh-in at Swain’s General Store in Port Angeles on Thursday. Constant said he caught the fish in Freshwater Bay. caught in the 53 years he has been fishing, he said. The largest fish he has hooked, he said, was a 302-pound halibut in Alaska where he once ran a fishing lodge before moving to Washington state. Constant said the catch was a good warmup for the 16th annual Port Angeles Halibut Derby coming up May 28-29, in
which he will compete. Fishing “is a passion and a hobby,” Constant said, adding he is a sturgeon guide on the Columbia River. Constant said about 70 percent of the halibut he caught Thursday is edible. “A lot of friends are going to be happy,” he said. “It makes good fish and chips.”
PORT ANGELES — Former Makah Tribal Council member Ryland Chad Bowechop will be sentenced in federal court today for embezzling $30,000 in tribal funds for personal expenditures including clothing, travel and casino cash advances. Bowechop, 38, of Bellingham pleaded guilty Feb. 3 in federal District Court in Tacoma to illegally charging the expenses to his tribal council credit card between June 2010 and May 2014. Bowechop, whose grandfather was a tribal executive director and council member, resigned from the tribal council in July 2014. A charge of embezzling $50,182 from a tribal organization was filed against Bowechop on June 26. The amount was reduced as the result of plea negotiations, Assistant U.S. Attorney Tate London of Seattle said Thursday.
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PORT ANGELES — A student at Port Angeles High School who was diagnosed with whooping cough is the only person to have been identified with the disease on the North Olympic Peninsula so far this year, health officials said Thursday. The Port Angeles School District announced this week it had been notified by the Clallam County Department of Health and Human Services that the boy, whom officials are not identifying, tested positive for pertussis, also
known as whooping cough. School officials distributed the information to parents via email. “This is the first confirmed case in 2016,” said Dr. Christopher Frank, Clallam County health officer. The student was potentially contagious at the school between April 19 and May 8, district officials said. Officials will not comment about where he might have contracted the disease, Frank said, adding it is one way to protect his anonymity. TURN
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SEQUIM — The Sequim Irrigation Festival’s Grand Finale Weekend will offer strongmen, a logging show, a grand parade and fireworks. The festival, now celebrating its second weekend builds on a 121-year-old tradition, with the theme of “Looking to the Future Through the Past.” Other events this weekend are a golf tournament, fun run and car show. This year’s Grand Parade is full with 120 entries, organizers said. It honors Grand Marshal Jim
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