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I don't hardly post pics since I replaced my iPhone.
The iPhone made it so easy and I'm too lazy to figure out my cheap azz Samsung. Lol.

I'll have to figure it out. I bought a new I Phone 5s and the De Lorme In Reach Explorer Sat messenger. Apparently you can bluetooth through the I Phone to the Messenger, and get satellite texting capabilities on the Phone. My buddy has it and it works great. Should come in handy for longer range fishing/hunting not to mention all my partner boats have the inreaches. Amazing how you never hear guys on the VHF anymore. All info is passed via DeLorme Inreaches.

10/4 on the VHF not being used much any more

Weather sucks here!

Boat work!! Momma and he girls are getting some fishing in though.



Should have the Glory done today, except for a 24hour haul out on Fri to do bottom paint and zincs.


Putting new non-skid in the skiff today. Should be fun..(grin) It needs it.


Put a stripe on the Almar too.

looks great Calvin


happy for you and proud of you


rock on

Lots of work done lately, good job.

Skiff came out well with the non-skid.

Looks good.

What did you use?

I used the exact stuff the manufacturer used. It's from Farwest Paints.

And it begins.

Nice start.

Nice

Finished up a 3 day opener in front of town. First day was a nice gale to shake down the boat in..(grin) Nothing like getting slammed by 50mph gusts. Managed to catch enough fish for a good check. Last day was really nice, but we had most of the fish caught up. Fun times..

Photo cred to Bro Dave.

sounds like decent results! Nice picture.

Glad its working out.

I know ..... really novice question

Are the salmon around most all the time, and then seasons open? Or do they go so far "out to sea" that they are not around at times?

Obviously only age classes spawn so they have to live oceanside for some amount of years.

Commercial and sport would both have specific seasons?

down here, that I can recall, there is no "fishing" season so to speak freshwater. And very few seasons salt until you get offshore.

I did go out the South Cove to look at your "Glory", and then again when ya had it on the out haul tractor. That's sure is a nice lookin' vessel ya have Calvin.
I was having a problem putting a face to the name, until ya posted the pic.
Did I see a clip on one of those Chinook in that Tote?

There is usually kings around, but most of them are around April-Aug. There is a winter fishery that runs Oct 14-April 30, or when we reach 45k treaty fish. This is confined to within the surf lines. This is more of a scratch fishery, but it can be very lucrative when you find some as they are worth a lot. Then, we have smaller spring hatchery openings in May/June, like the one I was fishing. They are smaller confined areas where you catch a high percentage of AK hatchery fish which don't count against the treaty. We are still getting winter prices of 9.75lb for larges, and 9.25lb for meds. Summer kings is July 1st, and usually lasts around a week. It's open everywhere, and it's a derby style opening. Coho fishing is open July 1st to the end of Sept. Usually we have a second summer king opening about the 2nd week of Aug for 2 or 3 days. You can also fish for chum and pink salmon.

So yeah, you can fish almost all year if inclined. I'll do my of my commercial salmon trolling Feb-April for kings, May for kings, July 1-5 for kings, and Sept for cohos. I guide June/July/Aug. I fish a lot.

Sport salmon fishing is open all year, but typically most of it occurs May-Aug.

That was sport fishing. Yes, I had a few clips.

Ssraa fish?

Dunno. My best guess would be a PSN fish, so yeah, I guess it would be a ssraa fish soon.