Summer

Solstice is now past and our days will be getting steadily shorter. How do these changes happen so quickly??

We've been busy this summer with the Interior Baseball League (Travis is playing & Mike is coaching):
 
 






Visits to the Delta Clearwater River:

Biologists-In-Training

The Shack with new deck & steps

Teklanika River:

Wall tent camp

 

The Cabin with solar panel kit installed

 and a Fathers Day trip to the Copper River to catch salmon to fill our freezer.

Copper River Camp 2012

Happy Fathers Day!

Guesstimated 50 pound king salmon

2 families, 40 sockeye & 8 king salmon

Audra took a work trip out to Lake Minchumina in early June.....beautiful!

Calm Morning

Windy Afternoon

Mt McKinley & Mt Foraker at 5am

Copper River

We headed down to the Copper River on Saturday, July 23 with the Darrow Family. The fishing reports had been poor, but we were pretty sure that there would be decent numbers of fish to fill our coolers. We dip-netted for a couple hours that evening and got 15 fish, a little slow but not bad.

Sunday morning things started picked up and by afternoon we were averaging 20 fish per hour. We ended up with 98 sockeye and 2 king salmon. Not bad for about 10 hours with of dipping! We knew it was time to quit fishing when my last haul landed me on my butt on the bottom of the boat with a king salmon in my lap, a bent dip net handle and a ripped up net.



Bringing in a king salmon

Running back upriver

Fishy Freckles

 

The king salmon that almost got away



Tote with 42 sockeye

 

Time for rest and libations