More Wild Salmon on Parade

The local Internation Brotherhood of Electrical Workers annually sponsors Anchorage's summer-long "Wild Salmon on Parade." They provide each entrant with a fiberglass salmon sculpture and $500 for supplies and materials. Each artist takes these basic items and creates the wildest and wackiest sculptures that they can.

The sculptures are displayed in various places throughout Anchorage and are auctioned off in September. The auction proceeds benefit various local nonprofit organizations. A party in early June kicks off the promotion.

"Summer School"

Pat Adolfae has created a large yellow school bus out of his salmon. This seems appropriate for our local salmon sport fisheries. Often the streams in Alaska are so full of returning salmon that it seems that they have arrived by the busload.

Adolfae's salmon is complete with reflectors, signals, a flashing light, and the required stop sign. Nobody may pass this salmon when his stop sign is out.

"Spamon Y"

This wild salmon has scales of Spam cans and is a pun on the favorite sandwich, ham on rye. Notice that the salmon's tail is a large bottle opener, just what one needs to open one's favorite beverage.

What is in the salmon's mouth? Could it be that he has taken the Spam bait? Alaska fishermen have been known to fish with anything, including Spam.