Some changes on the fishing leaderboard

Staff Reports Posted 4 August 2014 at 12:00 am

POINT BREEZE – A 24-pound Chinook still leads the Orleans County Fishing Derby, but there are new leaders in the brown trout and salmon divisions.Clifford Stout of Northeast, Md., leads the derby with 24-pound, 1-ounce Chinook. In other categories, Heather Saeva of Albion now leads the Salmon Division with a 23-pound, 15-ounce Chinook. Destiny Bickel of Burt leads with an 18-pound, 11-ounce brown trout.

In other divisions, Mike Schaeffer of Sligo, Pa., has the biggest rainbow trout with a 14-pound, 1-ounce fish and April Johnson of Rochester is in first place with a 16-pound, 4-ounce lake trout.

The grand prize is $4,000 for the heaviest fish. The Albion Rotary Club will give away about $8,800 in prizes with the derby, which continues until Aug. 17.