Wayne Kruse has this item in the Everett Herald:
When you can peddle 100 derby tickets a day, at 50 bucks a pop, you must have a fairly desirable product to offer. And so it was that the Anacortes Salmon Derby, scheduled for March 27-28, sold out its self-imposed quota of 1,000 slots in 10 days this year.
The quick sellout is really no surprise, since the sponsoring Fidalgo Chapter of the Puget Sound Anglers did much the same in 2009, pushing 800 tickets for the enormously popular event in two weeks.
For their $50, participants get launching, three nights moorage at Cap Sante Marina, a Friday night fishing seminar, a Saturday night no-host social, a barbecue lunch on Sunday, and the beautiful San Juans in which to operate.
