Archive for September, 2005

Sept 20, 2005

Thursday, September 29th, 2005

Took my Mississippi State graduate professor Don
Jackson, his 10 year old daughter Anna, and Don’s
childhood friend Joe Peceny of Mt. View Arkansas
fishing with my on the last day of the season. We had
a great time. The men learned how to run the fishing
gear, and both caught a few fish. Daughter Anna took
in [...]

Sept 10, 2005

Monday, September 12th, 2005

Got up at started fishing at first light. Overcast and flat calm. At midmorning, a call came over the radio – “Seiner, seiner seiner at Spaski.” This was repeated several more times with no reply. Someone asked what was the problem. The caller said the seine boat was headed for Spaki [...]

Sept 11 and 12, 2005

Monday, September 12th, 2005

Yesterday was a typical day for this season. When I arrived at my processor with my totes of fish, the right trailer wheel was off, hanging on by a thread. The outer bearing was pushed to the end of the axle, and the inner bearing was just plain gone. Took the bearing [...]

Sept 9, 2005

Saturday, September 10th, 2005

Beautiful day – sunny and in the 60’s, and decent fishing. Fog rolled in mid morning, making for tough fishing by myself. I’d set a course by the radar that was not in the path of any other boat, run back and run gear, then back forward to the radar to look for boats [...]

Sept 8, 2005

Friday, September 9th, 2005

Moved to Homeshore on a hot tip this morning. There is definitely a push of coho coming through. lots of bright jumpers coming down Icy Strait. Caught 16 at Funter, then 25 coho, 2 sockeye and a chum at Homeshore. Nice large, bright, mostly female cohos. Beautiful day, too, with [...]


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