Can't wait for February.

Yep, hot here too, and supposed to get hotter!

Here's how we tried to stay cool this weekend at Harding Lake...and no I had nothing to do with the fire!

Used the boat to haul chairs and coolers out of the launch to the beach. It runs great!


The kid supervising.


Sis trying to put her lifejacket on AFTER jumping in!


Even the kid wanted to take a dip!


Guarding the cooler.


"I'll catch the big laker dad!"


Bulldog/boxer mixes don't swim all that great!


Doberman/labs swim better, even if this one doesn't like it!


Even the Chihuahuas benefited from being thrown from the boat!


No fish caught this trip. We just wanted to get out and get acquainted with the new boat set up. Worked good on the Chena today, won't win any races. Looking forward trying it in the flats!

Be safe out there!

Looks like fun!

we have the salmon back!

Record heat here, also. Mid-eighties, so for here, I'm dying.
So White, you are having a year with 160 degree temperature swing! Wow!

Yes we are and I can easily do without the upper end of the range

Gee whiz Ken, sounds like you need to make a trip to South Dakota. Temps in the 70s and the walleyes are biting. Headed to the river saturday so you better get a move on!

I'm jealous ! Be sure to take your coat.

We call that "Africa" hot!

AK you need more holes in that old boat for drainage for a raised planter bed.

LOL!

We had a 9 hour commercial fishery opening tonight fish and game let us use a dip net (for realz)
I never felt so stupid in all my life, and to add insult to injury we got checked by the Feds.

I wish these King salmon would go extinct here so we could at least make a living off the other fish that there are plenty of here in the river, rather than keep everything closed to save those sorry azz things.

Great pics AKN!
Yukonjeff- I resorted to more burbot poles at freeze up.Less openings, net size changes every year. I like burbot just as much i guess, and no hook changes. I resorted to other fish last year.

YT I do like to eat me some Burbot but I wouldn't be surprised if they changed the regs to barbless hooks next year..lol

lol

Boy, has it been warm here, but good water for a while now. Picked up a few kings, and all the dungies I care to shuck for now. Getting ready to start the smoker next week. Sockeye are in!
Oh, also had lightning storms twice in the last week. I know it's common up north and east of here, but rare on the pan handle. I'd only seen it three times prior to these since '85.

On our way back to BET today, I could see fires on the ground west of the Alaska Range. Every valley in the Alaska Range has a thick layer of smoke hanging in it.

Wow, started in 10/6/12 and it's almost 100 pages.

Weve had a heat wave too.....great pictures Aknative. Looks like everyone enjoyed their day!

The 800 pound $75 piano is on the porch. Moving one of these through the Bush is not fun.

You could always use it to smoke fish in the off season