We took advantage of being Alaskan residents on Tuesday evening by becoming dip netters. Dip netting happens once a year during the red salmon run. This year it is open from July 10-31. In consists of wading in the water with a enormous net. The net sits on the bottom of the river and you simply hold it and wait for a salmon to swim into your net. We got there about an hour before high tide and were doing well. We caught 3 red salmon pretty quickly. However, once high tide hit, the fish slowed down. We are definitely planning on going again, next time a few hours before high tide. We talked with a coworker who dip netted earlier that morning from a boat. He said the fish were so thick that they were pulling 3 or 4 salmon in at once.
Jon is still busy with commercial fishing, which makes it challenging to find the time to sport fish for our own sustenance. When he finds time to come home he is very exhausted, cut up, and badly bruised. And of course, very stinky.
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