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Witnesses anchored nearby off the upriver end of Tenasilahe Island were still shaken Wednesday evening. Contacted independently, by telephone, their stories were nearly identical.
And bizarre.
"You think whatever you want about whether I'm crazy, but something in the water grabbed him, twisted twice and BAM! He was out of the boat. There was blood everywhere," said Mark Suzuki of Coburg, reached by cell phone. Suzuki was taken by investigators to an undisclosed location at his request. He said he insisted on talking with scientists at Timberline Lodge because it seemed safest at the 8,000 foot elevation.
"I'm never going back there again. I may not even go back to the Willamette," he said. "I had my wife and kids sent up here. The falls isn't big enough to keep that thing out of the valley."
Suzuki's account was confirmed by Joe Schwab, a retired Oregon State Police trooper who was guiding several clients in a boat next to Martin and was the first to report the incident on the state police "poacher hotline." Schwab was in seclusion with his clients late Wednesday, apparently being interrogated by state and federal fish biologists and agents from the Portland office of the FBI.
His handwritten notes and Suzuki's telephone number were obtained by The Oregonian through the Freedom of Information Act.
Lindsay Ball, Fish and Wildlife Department director urged anglers in the lower Columbia to be calm, but consider trout fishing this weekend. Ball also is a former State Police officer.
"Until we know a little more or get our hands on the fish we can't make a positive identification of either the animal or what it ate," he said. "There's very little evidence to go on."
Suzuki said Martin may have had the presence of mind to try to activate a self-inflating life preserver he was known to always wear as the fish was tearing at him. "All of a sudden there was a puff of camo in its mouth and a little pop, then they both went under," he said. Bits of camouflaged rubber material were recovered Wednesday all the way to Tongue Point on the ebbing tide.
Steve Fick, an Astoria fish plant owner, gill-netter and one of Martin's closest friends and fishing companions, was believed to be in the boat, but Suzuki said Fick collapsed and was taken to shore by another boater then life-flighted to an unidentified hospital.
Suzuki said he first thought a great white shark may have made its way upriver from the ocean, feeding on sea lions, but marine scientists said sharks cannot survive in freshwater.
Schwab's handwritten notes, written by an apparently shaking hand, describe a fish with a wide, flat head and "eyes the size of a man's fist," he wrote. The fish had narrow, deep trenches running horizontally from its eyes to the front of its upper mouth, much like those on a walleye.
But it was about "twice as long as Jim's boat (a 22-foot aluminum Willie Asaltor) and had vertical dark green stripes," Schwab's notes said. The word "stripes" had three s's and two i's in Schwab's notes.
Steve King, retired Columbia program manager for the Oregon department, said the fish may send biologists scrambling to find an internal memo Martin wrote in the early 1990s before he left his fisheries job for the governor's office.
In it, King said, Martin warned Washington fisheries officials to not stock sterile tiger muskies in southwest Washington lakes.
The fish are triploided, each egg injected with two sperm to confuse their urge to reproduce. A little known side effect of triploiding, Martin told Washington, is the fish's ability to both travel and metamorphmutate into forms that might adapt to passing back and forth between salt and freshwater, as salmon and sturgeon do.
"Jim told them that if that fish ever got into the ocean and started feeding, it could become the north pacific's dominant predator," King said. "It would be a very bitter irony indeed if that's how he went."
Tiger muskies from Riffe Lake on the Cowlitz River have been caught as far away as Cedar Oak Park in West Linn, nearly 75 river miles from Barrier Dam.
Martin's disappearance follows by just two weeks a largely discounted report by a gill-netter out of Astoria who said a fish larger than his boat destroyed his nets and gobbled three sea lions that were robbing spring chinook. The netter told fish checkers that the fish "laid out across the top of the water like a floating log several hundred years off. When a sea lion hit the net, the creature torpedoed in like a submarine and within a couple of seconds was munching sea lion sandwiches.
"I was afraid to start the boat."
Agency officials in both states assumed the man had been drinking alcohol during a slow night on the net.
Even local television stations refused to air Suzuki and Schwab's account to officials of Martin's disappearance.
"If it were even close to being believable, I'd be down there in a helicopter right now," said Grant McOmie, outdoor reporter for KATU. "But a giant tiger muskie? C'mon. Next thing you know they'll have me doing stories on sasquatch."
Schwab's cryptic notes, however, said Martin had netted an apparently wild spring chinook and was bending over to release the hooks from the thrashing salmon when he was taken.
Cindy LeFleur, Washington's Columbia fish manager, discounted Martin's memo, which at the time was ordered sealed from the public by governors Kitzhaber and Gary Locke of Washington.
Nor, she said, will the Columbia River Compact act immediately to lift requirements that anglers leave salmon in the water when they're to be released.
"I can't really believe that Mr. Martin was lost that way to begin with," she said. "And even in the name of safety, it's certainly premature to change a regulation aimed at saving so many wild endangered Snake River fish."
Don McIsaac, executive director of the Pacific Fishery Management Council, said the council will review whether to target sea-run tiger muskies as a commercial fish or for self-defense by commercial salmon trollers.
"This could be an important scientific discovery," he said, "so we'd probably have to have a quota and manage them according to where they're feeding in the ocean environment.
"But that's probably not going to happen until summer.
"Besides, we've got to find Jim first."
--Bill Monroe