Here's some photos of our fishing experience in the Sound and around Alaska
Date(s): March 19, 2024. Album by John Stelling. 1 - 24 of 41 Total. 419 Visits.
1 Here's a gang squid fishing
2 Ladies Silver Salmon Derby days always a hoot with the Thai mafia on board. Jeff worked his ass off landing fish and rebaiting for them
3 Linda and Daves "VIXEN" on Ladies Silver Salmon Derby day.
4 Jeff and Mai Turner with a nice Halibut
5 Elle with a few hours work. For many years we considered Pacific Cod as a trash fish. They were considered by many as wormy which they are not. There has always been lots and we threw them back as we were looking for Halibut. I realized we were wasting good fish and had to teach myself how to fillet and skin them. We wound up with wonderful fillets!!
6 Nu Noi Corcoran and Elle on a nice day.
7 What's that goofy look all about Nu Noi?
8 Here's a Toofer.....Haibut and a yellow eye
9 Elle with a nice silver salmon
10 Didn't get too far with the derby tho
11 A days work.....Thats a limit of Halibut. That's Jim and Chinda Heston and Elle. Now the work starts filleting them.
12 That fish on the right is a Ling Cod. God awful ugly but the best eating...
13 Even more ugly is this Wolf Eel
14 A potpourri
15 Nice Yellow Eye. These live to be quite old and theres not many so Fish and Game has a limit of two. If you catch more you must release them. We carry a release that you clip on the fishes lip and gently lower it back to deep water so the diaphragm goes back inside. Give a little tug to release the fish and he swims off right back where he came from. If you release it on the surface they live for a long while but can't overcome that bladder and die on the surface.
16 A Copper River King Salmon taken from a fish wheel at Chitina Alaska
17 This was supposed to be Elles fish
18 Steve Hoods Chitina fish wheel. It's powered by the river running by. It scoops the fish into the baskets as they pass by and drops them in a wet box on the side.
19 The fish from the wheel drop into a water box beside the wheel and are kept alive until they are brought ashore and bled.
20 Then they are cleaned and filleted
21 Then washed and iced right away
22 Then on to the smoke house and canned.
23 Elle mom and a load of Sockeye (Red) Salmon in the smokehouse
24 Razor clams from the west side of Cook Inlet Alaska.
