Salmon Derby


"Salmon Derby" is a Disney comics story by Carl Barks about the rivalry between Donald Duck and Gladstone Gander.

Plot

Donald and his nephews are on a vacation away from Duckburg where Donald is happy for being away from his cousin Gladstone, they notice that there is a fishing contest, so Donald takes a boat and tries to catch the biggest fish. Donald quickly hooks a sixty pounder but meanwhile at the ticket office Gladstone enters the race, he gets a motorboat and enters the lake where he meets Donald and cost him his fish.
Then, Gladstone hooks a seventy pounder so the nephews try to help Donald, they meet a native chief who helps them to catch an eighty pounder, they hook it to Donald's fishing rod but suddenly a speedboat collide with Donald's boat leaving Donald knocked out on its front and sending his fish into Gladstone's boat. Gladstone wins the contest but Donald manage to save a young girl that became stranded on the speedboat in the water after the collision and therefore receives a $10,000 reward from her father. By using the reward Donald buys a car twice the size and twice as fancy as Gladstone's prize car.