Late slow start fishing, and post too
Silver Bay is leasing Peter Pan in dillingham
Posted prices 80 cents # base plus bonus 30 cents ice
Coffee Point site slow
Updates and hopefully others can add
Photo 2am

Eight year,getting to know the old girl. Still solid for 1963 built

good luck out there and be safe...

Good luck. Hope the fish start running for you. My brother lives in Kodiak, his wife is the city manager.

Good luck.

Just had some sockeye for dinner tonight from Captain Chris of the Nordic Cross. Not sure if he is fishing yet or not.

Thanks for taking me to Ak. It is the only way I can afford to go .

Going well in Ugashik, had nearly 5000 pounds today; one set net. Twelve hour opening tomrrow at 7:45 AM.

Fishing picking up some today, fish are smaller this year

Good fishing waggle to your season

Kodiak city manager is not an easy one.hard to please all the different people. Wishing her the best

Little over 6000# today, could have caught a bit more, but tenders filled up; Grrr.

Lots of room here, packing 20k# today, biggest day yet. Total for the year around 60k so far. Usually packed over 200k by now

How is the "Salmon Enforcement Program" been treating everyone? Are salmon starting to comply now?

Generator is old and tired, looking like this may not be a season at all. Down to repair, replace or call

Best thing for the day was this bird drawing me away outside Napa
I will find out what it is

Semipalmated plover

Well we got a temporary generator and switched out.all good again with extra power.
Fun stuff salt water rusty bolts,and diesel fuel. At least calm out,and didn't miss any hot fishing

Is it time consuming to swap out generators?

Took two days with locating one,getting it to boat and getting boom truck to do lifts. Hooked up existing fuel lines and power cable (4 wires). Secure to deck and test systems. Did cost two days off contract equal no pay. Fishing is gambling everyday, similar to trapping if its your occupation

Lost a fisherman yesterday I hear in the bay.got tangled in the net going out. At times I am surprised not more. Hopefully that's all we hear. RIP

Nice pictures! Thank you for posting.Following.

A boat will always keep you busy spending
Now the circulation pump went out,fried,gotta like that damp salt environment
So now we wait for one to be air gold streak in.
Not hard to swap just getting one

I haven’t bumped into you yet and seasons almost done the boys say it hos getting pretty slow out there then they bumped another 10,000 pounds yesterday or the day before
Subsistence nets did really well for us this year we actually got to freeze some kings 😁 I just don’t care much for reds have been freezing them and silvers the last few years so we will eat good this winter

Our season is over, pump shipped out but tooo late and slow.
Got in just enough days to better than half what I hoped to make.
Well at least something.
Winterizing the boat ,will see what next year brings , obi maybe or see
Time for another captain

Took a walk around dillingham, needed it

Fisherman memorial

I want an anchor like that. Why? Because I like it.Thanks for the pictures.

I read today that Bristol Bay surface water temp. is at normal. Have you heard anything Otter? Very nice photos, relaxing, even the vessel is at rest.

Nothing on temp.i have heard. Will have to check
Thanks for following
Weather is somewhat better this summer

Pretty nice right at the moment.
From the front porch in Pilot Point, 5 minutes ago.

That is some flat country you live in Waggler. very nice day indeed.

Ugashik north line about one hour ago. Looks almost tropical.

Sorry to hear your season didn’t go well whoever said tendering was a sure thing definitely didn’t know what they were talking about
If you make it back to DLG next season let me know was a crazy summer for us with grandkids and fish and the family boats kept me running now trying to get all the honey dos done
My son finally made it up this morning taking a day off then may head back out to late fish kinda taking a wait and see attitude I know his ticket back up to the Yukon river is on the 27th so he doesn’t have much time left one way or the other

Where does your son live, Otter? Does he have a Yukon R. gal?

Pulled out today
The end
Thanks for following

what ended up being the price for reds this year? I will be in Kodiak Sunday afternoon. Till Monday afternoon.

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We still don't really know. I just called my fish company to get a pre settlement advace. They told me that they are a paying 80 cents base.
Hopefully we will get a quick retro, hoping for 20 cents added to base, but won't be surprised if it's only a nickle or so.
I think the overall bay harvest might be a little short of expectations, if so, that may help boost the base a little.

I just checked the preseason harvest forecast.

ADFG were predicting a harvest range from 25 million to 53 million (that's a pretty wide range imo).
The University of Washington was predicting almost 31 million.

I just checked, and to date the total harvest is almost 31 million.

The only district that is still fishing to any degree is Ugashik, they averaged 436 fish per delivery yesterday. I think they are about done there, so the harvest will be 31 million this year.

Silver Bay was 80 cents base plus 30 cents more iced
Kenai I heard open at 2 bucks then fell to 1.80
Still hearing kodiak is slowwww

Martentrapper he is in Alakanuk he married a girl from up there and teaches school so it works well with his summers fishing his permit in the bay