Things so far

Whats been going on? Besides an almost fruitless search for the lone public access internet spot in town.

We took two trips to the cabin to clean it up and to bring supplies. One of them brought us back at 12:30 am to a harbor that was completely empty of water. Dad and Stan waited out there for an hour for the tide to flood. The other trip was less painful besides the 5 o'clock wake up. A quick there and back mission that had us back in the harbor at 9am. 

My boat is ready to go and fish. Its going in the water tonight and I'm planning some speed trials to see how the engine performs. Last year I had deeply frustrating torque issues. 

Nets are put together and loaded. Ready to make the first sets. Ready to catch the first ton of fish!

I think we will head out to the cabin tomorrow evening and we will probably start fishing on Thursday or Friday.

Low Tide

Fishing Jargon

Here are some of the terms that find common usage in our camp and others in the bay. Can you guess what they mean? Answers next week. Oh yeah, keep it clean we are fishermen, not sailors!

Corked
Flake
Switch
Rollers
Ghost
Trip line
Flagged
Pick
Drifter
Belly Cinch
Basket Case
Gaff
Choppy


Good Luck

that last post

Took an hour and a half to upload, no joke, no exaggerations. I did finally find an internet connection in town. The pictures were of our stuff and our neighbors stuff.

the boatyard and tons of stuff

Captains Dinner

Peter Pan invites all of its fishermen for a captains dinner. There is food, prizes, singing, prayers, drinking, lots of talking, and catching up with old buddies.

The Cat

Yeah she's really snooty about having her picture taken. She also is real good at hiding when there is work to be done.

Two days ago I was working on something and I hear all this twittering behind the container so I walk over to go see whats going on and the cat comes tearing around the corner and right into the container with a bird in her mouth. Before I could get there the bird escapes and flys out pretty much near as fast as a swallow can. I guess she likes birding.

Today she just lay around in the first day of sun that we've had. I think she likes it up here.

On the water

We launched the Sashimi, my old boat, and went to the wood river to stake out a claim in the last bastion of the wild west left in this fishery. There were a few tents and lots of signs on both sides of the bank. I found the site i fished last year and nobody put up a sign so I staked it. Dad and Eric's sites were still open and we got those too. I have mixed feelings about posting where I fish since having a sign doesn't actually guarantee a spot but hopefully it won't be a problem. There were other lone sites without signs around. Ill have to wait and see what develops. Talking to the biologist, Tim Sands, indicated that we would start fishing in the district where we have fish camp and then move to the Wood river after a deficit is reached in the amount of escapement between the Nushagak river and the Wood river in order to protect the Nushagak fish. Sorry techinical stuff I know but it means a difference of me staying in a cabin on the slough for the summer and fishing my sites or sleeping in a container in the boatyard and fighting drifters and other fishermen. The trade off is that the Wood is good for catching fish usually but not always. Its a gamble and I'm the captain. We will see how it plays out.

Where I Fish

I fish right at the mouth of the slough. It's low tide in this picture so my nets would be right at the edge of the water about 2/3rds from the right of this pic. Another nice day on the bay and I didn't cause the plane to crash even though I might have been using a portable electronic device at the wrong time.

I'm too tired for this now.

I'm exhausted. It's about as dismal as it can get without getting interesting outside. I think I'm gonna go crawl into the container and take a nap. The cat is still alive. Got a few things done yesterday and I took a shower today. I'll write more later.