Friday, July 11, 2008

The Kings keep coming!


Well Ralph and I decided to try a couple of new fishing holes last weekend. We arrived at Montana Creek thinking we might be able to catch a fish. The creek was so packed with people trying to fish a very small area that we ended up leaving not even putting our lines in the water. We decided this year's trip to the north fishing creeks would just be our experiment and we would at least see how they fished and where. But, after leaving Montana Creek we decided to stop a Sheep Creek and I am so glad we did. It was a short hike down to the river and there weren't many people fishing. That is what we like to see. After being there a short time we saw two kings caught so we decided to jump in the line and see what would happen. In about an hour Ralph hooked into this 29 pound King Salmon! 20 minutes later I caught this 21 pound King. The people were great, the crowd was few, the Kings were plentiful and it was hard for us to leave. You see here in Alaska you get one of these fish a day, 5 total for the season, so once we caught our fish we couldn't fish anymore. But we did just hang out with the folks there and watched numerous other fish caught. It was a wonderful end to a beautiful day. Neither Ralph nor I expected to catch Kings and we just kept smiling and reliving the day together on the way home. I asked Ralph one simple question...'Will we ever leave Alaska?' His answer...a big smile!

Tuesday of next week we are going with a friend of ours on a fishing charter boat out of Whittier, AK for a halibut excursion! I hope to catch halibut, rock fish, ling cod and anything else that I can! We are of course praying for light seas and good weather and plentiful fish. I will update when we get home.

4 comments:

Ma Ingalls with ADHD said...

those are amazingly HUGE!!!

DeEtta @ Courageous Joy said...

Great CATCHES! I miss ALASKA...some things don't change. LOL

I'm glad you've decided to start blogging a bit again. I've missed you - thrilled to hear how well your business is going.

Cynthia said...

WOW! How exciting. We MUST visit that area sometime.

Ted&jamiDavis said...

hey this is Ted and i must say how sad i am that I havent been able to catch a nice King Salmon in over 4 years......maybe next year....nice photos! hopefully we can see you soon.....