Thursday, July 22, 2010.

At Chiechanski State Park we boarded the "King of the River" for the second time to go salmon fishing. Dean, the deaf mute, had his uncle and cousin on board too. Jimmy caught a 40 pound King salmon that was absolutely gorgeous. It had a good color and it was a female. When they filleted her, she had 2gallon Ziploc bags full of fish roe. She was caught before she could deposit her eggs in the rocks up stream. If she has gotten that far and deposited the eggs, she would have been a redder color on the outside and the meat inside would have been light in color and not good tasting. She really fought against being pulled in. It must have taken Jimmy 30 minutes to pull her in. I only had 1 bite, but the fish never got hooked. The other people on the boat caught some small salmon; but not any Kings. Now Daddy has his quota of King Salmon for the Kenai River. He can't catch any more. You can only catch 1 per day or a total of 2 per year in the Kenai River.