Saturday July 10, 2010

The weather has been great lately. One of the guys in the park, Charlie, has access to a boat and he has been kind enough to take some of us fishing. Thursday I caught a 24" King Salmon but I had to let it go because the minimum is 27" and the penalties may include impounding the boat. Gary, another Workamper, caught a 30" King and a Dolly Varden. I also caught one Dolly, so the fishing was pretty good.

On Friday we went fishing again. This time we caught 3 Dollys, one King (unfortunately only 24" again) and a King of undetermined size. When the second King hit, Joe started reeling it in and it was giving a great fight when all of the sudden the line began running at an unbelievable speed. The entire spool of line was gone in about 3 seconds. Thankfully the line broke free from the reel. Shortly after the line was stripped a Harbor Seal broke water in that area and seemed to be having a great time. We are guessing he just got a great meal thanks to our effort of catching his dinner for him.

The great part of fishing trip was that apparently the Whales and the Harbor Seals are arriving now because the salmon are starting to queue up to begin their run upstream. We saw 2 whales and many seals during our trip. One whale came up within 50 feet of the boat and was so close we could hear him blow. Apparently more whale will show up as more salmon get here. The salmon should begin their run upstream in about 2 weeks.

Another interesting part of being here is the various fishing boats that show up at the docks. The General Manager, Jerry, made sure we knew that the Salmon boat was showing up at 9:00 am. So we went to the docks and I got 2 nice Sockeye Salmons. The boat owner was fileting the fish. He took about 2 minutes to filet each fish. It was quite something to watch how quick he was. There was very little meat left on the bones. The next day the Crab boat arrived. We are now beginning to have fresh fish on regular basis and are still able to put a few in the freezer.

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