Sunday, June 27, 2010

A Humbling Experience

Today was our first day of real fishing. The Fish and Game opened us up for fishing this morning at 11am. We got out on the beach at 10 to set up the beach nets and get the boats in the water. There were three boats and we set twelve 210 feet long nets. As soon as we had finished setting them, we immediately went to the first nets that had been set and started picking. I was in Elliot's boat. The first net we picked only had 6 fish. The second, however, had probably around 20, and each one after had more. We stopped fishing around 2:00, came back to the house, and pitched fish into big totes full of ice water that were sitting on the scales to weigh the fish. We had 793 lbs of fish and altogether that was about 250 fish. All were sockeyes, aka red salmon, except one king salmon that weighed 11 lbs. We had a wonderful lunch of salmon salad sandwiches, grilled cheese, and tomato soup. It was incredible after the cold, wet, rainy morning on the water. k gotta run. we about to go back out at 6pm to do it all again. we have to have the nets out of the water by 11pm tonight and then we fish again tomorrow morning when they open us up at 7am.
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  1. TeresaMonday, June 28, 2010 at 5:08:00 AM AKDT

    Hard work builds character, so they tell me. I assume you and David will come home full of "Character". Good for you, stick with it and be safe! You are both in our prayers.

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  2. LalMonday, June 28, 2010 at 6:45:00 AM AKDT

    So does Fish and Game give you a different schedule every day? Or will there be some kind of consistency?

    Thanks for the updates, be careful out there.

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  3. Gwyn MullinsMonday, June 28, 2010 at 7:55:00 AM AKDT

    Why was it humbling? The difficulty of the work, or something else? So glad you're catching lots!

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  4. CatherineMonday, June 28, 2010 at 2:04:00 PM AKDT

    There is a different schedule every day. From what I understand it is the opposite of consistency.

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  5. CatherineMonday, June 28, 2010 at 2:05:00 PM AKDT

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  6. ChrissyMonday, June 28, 2010 at 8:25:00 PM AKDT

    I'm confused about what the humbling experience was. Was it that it was hard/difficult? Glad you had awesome meals though! :)

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  7. JacksonTuesday, June 29, 2010 at 4:49:00 PM AKDT

    *Correction* the 793 lbs consisted of 153 fish. 250 was just an on-the-water estimation.

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