{"id":6248,"date":"2018-08-22T10:29:37","date_gmt":"2018-08-22T14:29:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/boilermaker.ca\/?p=6248"},"modified":"2018-08-22T10:29:37","modified_gmt":"2018-08-22T14:29:37","slug":"lodge-128s-michael-koepke-lands-champion-fish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/boilermaker.ca\/en\/lodge-128s-michael-koepke-lands-champion-fish\/","title":{"rendered":"Lodge 128&#8217;s Michael Koepke Lands Champion Fish"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_6249\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 821px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/boilermaker.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/Michael-Koepke-fishing-derby-champion.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6249\" src=\"http:\/\/boilermaker.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/Michael-Koepke-fishing-derby-champion.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"821\" height=\"559\" srcset=\"https:\/\/boilermaker.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/Michael-Koepke-fishing-derby-champion.jpg 821w, https:\/\/boilermaker.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/Michael-Koepke-fishing-derby-champion-320x218.jpg 320w, https:\/\/boilermaker.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/Michael-Koepke-fishing-derby-champion-768x523.jpg 768w, https:\/\/boilermaker.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/Michael-Koepke-fishing-derby-champion-640x436.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 821px) 100vw, 821px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Left to right) Lodge 128 fishing champs Christopher Craft and Michael Koepke hold up the champion chinook at 23 lbs.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Michael Koepke, a Boilermaker out of Lodge 128, recently won Lake Huron&#8217;s largest fishing derby by catching a 23lb chinook salmon that measured 38&#8243; long and had a girth of 22&#8243;. According to Brother Koepke &#8220;We pulled in the winning fish with 6 hours left till the end of the tournament. It took 15 minutes to get the fish on board, it gave us a difficult fight, but it was worth it.&#8221; The championship winning fish landed him $15,000 and the bragging rights at his local until he must defend his title at the derby next year.<\/p>\n<p>1,500 people entered the 35th Annual Chantry Chinook Classic, a 15 day derby running from July 28 to August 12. Learn more about the derby by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dwindlesdream.com\/Chantry\/results18.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Koepke, a Boilermaker out of Lodge 128, recently won Lake Huron&#8217;s largest fishing derby by catching a 23lb chinook salmon that measured 38&#8243; long and had a girth of 22&#8243;. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[193],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/boilermaker.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/boilermaker.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/boilermaker.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boilermaker.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boilermaker.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6248"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/boilermaker.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6251,"href":"https:\/\/boilermaker.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6248\/revisions\/6251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/boilermaker.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boilermaker.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boilermaker.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}