On Sunday we picked up marc, my third and final crew member and made our way across the bay to the cabin. We fished the three hour opening and caught seven fish, all sockeye. The next night fish and game opened it for ten hours with red gear. We dropped both the nets out deep in the site about where we usually fish. Four hours after the beginning of the opening was a high tide of 23 feet which allowed us to fish on the flats near the grass. Fishing on the grass can be kind of dicey because you have to watch the tides closely. Otherwise the tide can leave you stranded for 24 hours.
We set out a net and went to go get gas from a tender. The tender was pretty busy taking deliveries so we went back to check the net and it was plugged with fish. I asked my crew if we should get the other net as it was only four and the tide would be changing at six. We dropped the other net up in the grass and started picking the first one. We got three brailers out of it about 1600 lbs. We started picking back and got through about two third when I looked at the clock and it read 5:30 am time to get hauling. We started frantically pulling in the net fish and all. I was kicking up mud all the way to the next net it was so shallow. This is usual and many seasons I had jumped out of the boat to push it out of there. Started to round haul the next net and got half of it in when we hit a mound of grass that grounded the boat we tried to push off and it wouldn’t budge. I called my dad on the radio. And he came over to toss us a line to pull the boat off. It didn’t work. We still had a bit of net out so my dad fired his power roller up and flaked it in fast. We got it in and abandoned ship. My boat was high and dry the whole day until 3am with about 3500lbs of fish going bad. It broke my heart. We got to the cabin at 8 in the morning and I slept the whole day we were exhausted.
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oh, nooo...
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