Cornelius Slotemaker with a big sturgeon...three decades later his son, Jack, would catch an even
bigger fish, using his dad's pole... see the halibut story at the bottom of this page...
Jack fishing on the Nooksack
Jake, Dad, Dean and Nancy Sawyer, a neighbor in Mount Vernon, in June 1957--- The caption on this
photo said, "The Big Catch, May 13, 1957"... this salmon would have been caught on the
Skagit, not the Nooksack...