The commercial fishing season for the Cook Inlet started this past Monday. Jon is fishing as a set net (beach) site. The first few days were slow, but on Saturday the red salmon started coming up towards the Kenai River in masses. Saturday morning they caught 25,000 pounds and Saturday evening they caught 20,000 pounds. This is the most they have caught in one day since the man who Jon is working for has owned this site. He worked from Saturday morning at 5:40 until Sunday morning at 8, with only a couple minutes break. In addition to catching red salmon in their nets, they have also caught king salmon, pink salmon (which are only suppose to run on even years), a couple sand sharks, a lingcod, a halibut, and many flounder.
Our weather has been back and forth. We have had some beautiful days, giving us some cloudless views of the mountain range across the inlet. We have also had some cloudly day that at times leaves us little to no view of the mountains. Earlier this week we were blessed with a gorgeous view of just Mount Redoubt peeking out between two layers of clouds.
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