AK Fishing Blowout 2015

I'd put some leave on the calendar to do a halibut charter.  When the Copper River fish numbers started looking good, we decided to make a week of it, heading down to Chitina for salmon dipnetting before the charter.


The Chitina crew.  Fishing started to slow down while we were out there, but we still managed to get 90 salmon between 6 of us.  The weather was hot, too, 80 degrees all day.


After getting back and processing fish until 2 in the morning, we headed down to the Kenai Peninsula.  We stopped for dinner at a friend's parents' house, then were at the beach for a 7am launch from Ninilchik.  The weather was great there, too.

 
We headed across the inlet to the Alaska Peninsula for some clamming, with stellar views of Iliamna and Redoubt in the background.


The clams were plentiful and huge.


We had success on the halibut charter as well.  All told, in a week Jess and I came home with 30 salmon, 70 clams, and about 35 pounds of halibut.  More than enough to be eating fish for the rest of the year.  Alaska's a generous place.