Epic Sockeye Run
Tuesday, July 30 - This has been a banner year for sockeye salmon. We've seen daily numbers in the 70,000s and 80,000s, and even a couple of days around 99,000 fish in the river. It's way higher than it has been in the last few years. But, we've been told by the locals that this is what the run used to be like every year before things got overfished. Hopefully, this will be an upward trend, and things will get back to normal. In the meantime, we have had a blast catching as much sockeye as we're allowed to. The limit changed from 3 per person to 6 per person on Sunday, with the commercial season opening early due to the high numbers. So, we all went out to a local park on the river and caught 28 in about three hours on Sunday. Here's what that looks like before filleting: The next day, we hopped a float plane on Mackey Lake in Soldotna and flew over to Lake Clark National Park to do some fishing on Crescent Lake. Everything about the day was outstanding! The ...