Very slow fishing today. Just 20 coho by 4 pm. Tragedy heard over the radio today, as a Juneau gillnetter was lost from his boat, presumed overboard. The Coast Guard announced the incident so any boats in the area could look out for him.
My processor called today and said all our orders [...]
Fishing was good today. I was on my way to 100 when the gurdy pin broke, just as the wind picked up. By the time I fixed the gurdy, it was 5 ft seas and pouring rain, so I ran to Flynn Cove about 4:30, and caught about 70.
A sealion shadowed [...]
Got boarded by the Coast Guard yesterday. Luckily, they were ready to check to see that my flares were not expired, nor my fire extinguisher. Several 20 somethings came on board, armed with pistols. In the event my flares were expired and the kids’ pistols weren’t enough firepower to take me in, [...]
Tied up to the dock in Funter Bay. learned a new method for removing blood from my fish using a catheter attached to the end of the waterhose and inserting it along the forward part of the kidney, after the gills are removed. It took some monkeying around finding the right tubing to [...]
Finally getting back out fishing today. As usual, a real bear offloading fish. Needed to move fish up the dock at low tide, which burned out the drive wheel on our power cart, which is a contraption we built out of an old track snowblower. So, I’ll need to replace that part [...]
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