Running a tender here at coffee point , dillingham, for Peter Pan.
Sitting on anchor S.E.15 winds
Nothing happening yet
Some subsistence, looking slow
Tender fleet ready will see how much effort from fisherman
Has been strange year with distancing quarantine,no dock access
No coffee for setnetters when they deliever
Weather been raining
Fish and game counting escapement before open
Keep you posted

My son is in Egegik,,AGS, no rooms,meals,services,, 2 months on 32" boat. Luckily the boat has a shower and AGS has pledged good tender services. I've got lots of job offers but at 69 and spare pig parts I think a pass is in order!

your choice to stay home is not bad considering the year ,but knew others counting on me to be here again need all the help to pull a season off. The fish don't know what's going on and let's get em.
Weather improving.watched a couple old ladies catch about 10 reds in 25 fathom net this tide in front of our anchorage

Happy Father's day
Sunday report no openers yet

Happy Fathers day.

I ran a tender for 8 years here during the King boom days. I used to eat breakfast,lunch and dinner and mug ups with Governor Jay Hammond. Working for NELBRO years ago in Naknek doing frozen Herring, lightering to the Jap Trampers out in the Bay. Also set netted out on the cut bank

Sitting here on the Yukon watching fish swim by and they have us closed for everything. This season is going to suck.

that is crazy! i was out last night on the big susitna and i seen hundreds of kings. i dont understand why the season is down. why can the japs and com guys have a free for all the salmon. but us guys that just to fill our freezers for our faimlys are S.O.L.....

My son is down there as well fishing with his Uncle and Cousin. They better do well because he quit a good job here with no guarantee of getting back on when he gets back.

Kids.....

-TJ

Fishing and trapping go so well together that's why we go
No opening yet
Earliest may me Weds 3 am
Escapement is at 10610 kings and 40,146 on the wood River

Otter aught six- welcome back to the Nush. What tender are you running?

Celilo converted 59 foot old coast guard buoy tender from the Colombia River
Working coffee point setnetters, I anchor by the hospital alot

I set-net out of Grave Yard Point from 1990-97. We sold to Red Salmon in Naknek. Lots of work but good times. That whole industry has to be really strange with this distancing stuff. Especially no coffee from the tenders!! I suppose no cannery meals or mug-ups while in town either.

Its political. Between the Canadian and the Tanana cry babies trying to shut us down, I am not sure which one is worse.

Still no openers till Thurs 3 am maybe?
Seeing jumpers
Not allowed off boat at dock
No mug up
Harbor closed,they want you to go out and anchor

C'mon Jeff! No way you can see the fish in that silty Yukon water!

Otter welcome back to the Nushagak definitely a strange year with no kings hoping to see a push on the morning tide so we can get the smoke house full first time we ever had more reds than kings on June 21The harbor is a mess with the no rafting to the ramps and come in for one tide and leave

Thanks Otterman good to be back. Seeing more jumpers tonight.giving us some hope it won't be long

23kings in the subsistence net this morning darn near all jacks though really strange year very few big females bring caught and the jacks are all males out of 23 only 1 over 20 pounds and 5 more 15-20 pounds the rest were under 10 pounds. Problem is those jacks all go by the sonar and get counted as reds due to their size. Big push of reds into Wood River this mornings tide we tried a set pulled and ran up the Nush to get away from them finally seeing the big early run dogs as well

My picture window looks out over the river. I watch jumpers all day.
They opened us up for a 18 hr subsistence period today using dip nets only, we can’t even use the 6” webbing in our dip nets and all kings need to be released alive!

Neat history on the celilo. I drive past you every morning on the road. Maybe see you on the water some day.

We have a opener starting at 0330 for 12 hours.
All loaded with ice and chilled water,RSW (refrigerated Sea water)
Gas for the set netters to
Will see what this year brings. My 4 th time running this boat.
The last three have off the charts for my guy.
Basically we are buyers on the grounds for the plant. Pretty much like groney buying fur
And we truck em in.and so far in 3 years bought 1.8 million pounds (Celilo)
Last years price was $1.55 a # iced .you do the math. So fish were like 6 something apiece
Kind like the good muskrat days but just super size catches
The contract / season is about 35 days
Sleep now is a distance thought