Life in Southeast Alaska

Wanna See a Nice Fish?

Rod and his nephew caught this King Salmon today.  How exciting!!

Even though it was raining and a little windy, they said the water was nice when they got the boat launched.  They left around 11am and were back at 5pm, so were gone for 6 hours.  According to Fish and Game, the average rod hours to catch a King Salmon last week was 64 hours, so they did very good for the first trip out!  Too bad they didn't have a derby ticket....the fish weighed about 25 pounds and was 36 inches long.  Maybe they would have won some money!

Jordon seemed pretty happy to finally be able to go fishing.  He has been here since Thursday and this is the first trip on the boat.  Rod bought a new outboard and wasn't quite done getting it all rigged, so Jordon helped for a couple days and was getting pretty bored.  We took the boat out on her maiden voyage on Saturday afternoon - it really goes!  I was so glad to see them lift that fish up when they returned today - made all that waiting worth it.

The fish was almost too big for my counter.  I filleted it and vacuum packed it - put one half in the freezer for Jordon to take back to Idaho and the other we will cook up tomorrow.  We would have cooked it tonight, but Rod had to go to work.  Tomorrow they are going after halibut and will see if the crab pot has been productive.  I might go too, haven't decided yet...