Flounder, the most tasteless fish you could ever eat.

we catch bunches of these indestructible fish in our net, we toss them back and they get caught in the net again. They have terrible texture, taste like mud, and smell real bad when dead.

Filling a Cargo Container.

Fishing is done for the season. Worked real hard. Caught a lot of fish. My hands are all thrashed and my left arm is numb. I put both my crew members on the plane today. Brandon in the morning and Marc just an hour ago. Eric and his crew got out on standby this morning, a couple of days earlier than they were scheduled. The weather has been wonderful and my boat is cleaned and my gear is all put away. I went to the processor to settle and they based my earnings off of a $.68/lb price, the same as last year. Not very good for the whole profitability of the venture. Maybe they'll decide to give me more money later. One can always hope.

No, we dont use fishing poles.

My Skiff and the Slough at High Tide.

we fish out at the mouth of the slough. you can see our sites as a thin ribbon of water in the second picture.

So many things to say and no time to say them.

A lot has happened in the last two weeks. Here is a short summary of it all. Two mondays ago the fish hit hard. Marc, Brandon and I fished like crazy and picked 20,000 lbs of sockeye out of the net in one day, a new record. That brought us to 30,000lbs. That night peter pan put us on limits of 5,000lbs per 24 hour period. We caught that in three hour and went in to sleep for a good long time. The rest of the week we were on limits as well. Fishing dropped off by friday. The next week was slow and filled with an uneasy kind of rest. One that had me in the cabin wondering if that was it. I was sitting at 42,000lbs on wednesday a far cry from my goal of 65,000lbs. With a bit of providence another school came in that morning and we picked another 10000lbs out in 8hrs. It was just what I needed. Scratch fishing begins and I hope to pull another six thousand in the following days. Brought a load of cabin stuff to the containers last night and spent all day in the blazing sun cutting up salmon and vac packing them. This summer has been hot almost every day. It has been nice.