Fishing

[Maine-iac]

So as everybody probably knows it is best to fish in the twilight hours (early morning/late evening). But when do you fish if the sun does not set?

[olyclimber]

24X7

[wfinley]

After dinner and before breakfast.

[Hugh Conway]

nice fish!

[prole]

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[LostCamKenny]

After dinner and before breakfast.

meh, i see thsoe every day...

 

bet it fought hard, eh? how long it take ya to land it?

[wfinley]

Well... you see that huge net? That's what I caught it with --- so it took all of 1 minute to jerk the net out of the water and scramble up the wet slab to the shelf where the baseball bat is kept. This isn't really fishing... it's harvesting and as an Alaska resident you can dipnet 30 reds and 1 king per season.

 

If you want to see more dipnetting pix check out this link:

http://www.akmountain.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=home.tags&tag=dipnet

 

Here are some more pix:

 

[LostCamKenny]

ha! that's awesome! how much of that you smoke?

[wfinley]

Copper river reds seem to last longer in the freezer than other reds -- so we freeze everything we catch dipnetting (usually around 30 fish). Everything else caught the rest of the summer (usually another 20-30 fish) is smoked.

 

 

[LostCamKenny]

Copper river reds seem to last longer in the freezer than other reds -- so we freeze everything we catch dipnetting (usually around 30 fish). Everything else caught the rest of the summer (usually another 20-30 fish) is smoked.

 

what's the run prediction up there this year?

[wfinley]

Copper is normal; the Kenai is predicted to be low this year.

[LostCamKenny]

LOTS of sockeye runnin up the columbia thus year - spring chinook and steelys are kinda strugglin, but the summer kings look good so far - from what i've seen, anyway.

[kevbone]

So as everybody probably knows it is best to fish in the twilight hours (early morning/late evening). But when do you fish if the sun does not set?

 

Who cares. Fishing is cruel and lame.

[olyclimber]

CRUELTY TO FISHES! OMG!!!

 

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[j_b]

So how does it work? you keep the net in the water until you catch something?

 

Where do you go on the Copper?

[j_b]

I now see that you go near Chitina. I love the Copper. At Childs' Glacier you can wait for an iceberg to calve and flush salmon on the opposite bank (not very legal I imagine).

[wfinley]

Yeah - there are so many fish in the river that you just leave the net in the water till you feel a bump and jerk it out. It usually takes us about 12 hours to get our limit --- although I've heard tales of people catching 50 fish in 3 hours.

 

The Kenai also has a dipnet fishery -- and that's the place where 50,000-80,0000 fish can push through in a single day. I've heard tales of people on the Kenai catching 50 fish in 30 minutes.

[LostCamKenny]

At Childs' Glacier you can wait for an iceberg to calve and flush salmon on the opposite bank (not very legal I imagine).

pretty effective, though, i'm sure, if you can be patient enough to wait for the ice to break off...

 

or just come here...

of course you have to get by two security gates and then you'd have find some way to be stealthy enough to not draw attention to yerself (which would be nearly impossible, especially if you are hauling around a big ass net!)

[LostCamKenny]

[wfinley]

At Childs' Glacier you can wait for an iceberg to calve and flush salmon on the opposite bank (not very legal I imagine).

I think I saw that movie.

 

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[Maine-iac]

So as everybody probably knows it is best to fish in the twilight hours (early morning/late evening). But when do you fish if the sun does not set?

 

Who cares. Fishing is cruel and lame.

 

So Miss boner is a vegetarian then.

That explains it all.

[LostCamKenny]

But when do you fish if the sun does not set?

to actually answer yer question and be a productive part of this thread i'd say that you start as soon as the beer is cold and you quit when the bait is gone - or when you've lost yer rig n tackle b/c you left it too close to the water and some rogue canine knocked it in and away it went!

[wfinley]

Or when the water rises and your beer floats away.

[LostCamKenny]

summitchaser should be payin attention here, too

[archenemy]

I am terribly jealous.