Dipnetting on the Chitina. This past weekend Tom and I went to "Chitna" to go dipnetting. The Richardson Highway was closed due to a mud/rock/rain-slide that buried the road, so we had to make 110 mile detour to Tok. We finally got down there and took a charter boat out to a postage stamp sized rock.

Yeah.

Anyhow, three hours later, we had hauled in 60 red salmon. Net catch was 142 lbs.

Friday:
1900 Left Fairbanks

Saturday
0230 Arrive Chitina
0300 Breakfast
0400 Get in line for the charter
0545 Boat leaves O'Brian Creek lot
0600 Tom and I get dropped off on Postage Stamp.
0900 We've caught our limit
0905 Beer.
1200 Charter picks us up
1300 Leave Chitina
1630 Naptime
1730 Driving again
2200 Arrive Home, make plans to clean fish on Sunday.

Sunday
1100 I wake up.
1500 Tom calls
1600 Start cleaning fish.

Monday
0030 Done cleaning fish.

Here are some of the highlights of the rest of the pictures