ness Posted July 24 Posted July 24 Remember that 'Salmon Candy' @Phil Lilley had at our get-together? If I had a bunch of salmon, I'd be looking to make some of that! John
BilletHead Posted July 24 Author Posted July 24 1 hour ago, ness said: Remember that 'Salmon Candy' @Phil Lilley had at our get-together? If I had a bunch of salmon, I'd be looking to make some of that! I do and have been looking at recipes. Duane has been doing some after we all left. Of course he has been sending pictures. We will be doing some. ness 1 "We have met the enemy and it is us", Pogo If you compete with your fellow anglers, you become their competitor, If you help them you become their friend" Lefty Kreh " Never display your knowledge, you only share it" Lefty Kreh "Eat more bass and there will be more room for walleye to grow!" BilletHead " One thing in life is for sure. If you are careful you can straddle the barbed wire fence but make one mistake and you will be hurting" BilletHead P.S. "May your fences be short or hope you have long legs" BilletHead
BilletHead Posted July 24 Author Posted July 24 Sunday meal. Salmon how many ways? Brother Dave got with it. Duane smoked salmon on the grill. Dave made salmon dip with some of Duane's grilled fish, he also made cervechi and salmon rolls. Salmon rolls had either raw or cooked salmon. Note this was prepared with previous frozen raw salmon. Salmon like other freshwater fish have parasites. Do not eat raw. Even though some ocean fish can be eaten raw salmon should not. All good but will be hard to really like the ceviche to me. It might grow on me. That evening Pat, Dave and I were flossing salmon again at the closest place trying to fill our limit. Nick Adams, ness and Johnsfolly 3 "We have met the enemy and it is us", Pogo If you compete with your fellow anglers, you become their competitor, If you help them you become their friend" Lefty Kreh " Never display your knowledge, you only share it" Lefty Kreh "Eat more bass and there will be more room for walleye to grow!" BilletHead " One thing in life is for sure. If you are careful you can straddle the barbed wire fence but make one mistake and you will be hurting" BilletHead P.S. "May your fences be short or hope you have long legs" BilletHead
BilletHead Posted July 24 Author Posted July 24 Rush hour on the Kvichak, VID_20250724_131139.mp4 nomolites and Johnsfolly 2 "We have met the enemy and it is us", Pogo If you compete with your fellow anglers, you become their competitor, If you help them you become their friend" Lefty Kreh " Never display your knowledge, you only share it" Lefty Kreh "Eat more bass and there will be more room for walleye to grow!" BilletHead " One thing in life is for sure. If you are careful you can straddle the barbed wire fence but make one mistake and you will be hurting" BilletHead P.S. "May your fences be short or hope you have long legs" BilletHead
BilletHead Posted July 24 Author Posted July 24 Monday the 14th AM, Time for exploring Dave, Mike, Pat and myself headed downriver looking again for potential pike. Got out of the boat following braid sloughs and backwater. Again seen two tiny ones. No follows, no hookups. Then we went to braid that looked interesting. As we got closer I seen a fish jump. We beached the boat and grabbed five weights and drys and hoppers. We all spread out on the upper end of the braid. I caught a decent rainbow, Pat and Mike caught some greying, Johnsfolly, Quillback and nomolites 3 "We have met the enemy and it is us", Pogo If you compete with your fellow anglers, you become their competitor, If you help them you become their friend" Lefty Kreh " Never display your knowledge, you only share it" Lefty Kreh "Eat more bass and there will be more room for walleye to grow!" BilletHead " One thing in life is for sure. If you are careful you can straddle the barbed wire fence but make one mistake and you will be hurting" BilletHead P.S. "May your fences be short or hope you have long legs" BilletHead
BilletHead Posted July 24 Author Posted July 24 Afternoon, Dave, Mike and myself took off in the rain to revisit the same morning spot. We had actually left Duane's net on the bank. Trying to save face and not hearing for the rest of our life we had lost Duane's favorite net we thought it would be a good thing to get it. We ran out of rain but could look back to the lodge and seen it pouring. Back at the braid we fished more. I caught a greyling and a couple small rainbows. We had another Bear spotting that afternoon. A big one. Couldn't get the picture before the bear went straight up a bluff bank in just a couple strides. We motored to the bank to see if we could see it. Mike screaming all the way saying no,no,no that Bear could get us. As we got to the bank and looked up that bear was standing brodside looking down on us and just disappeared in the bush. Big I'm telling you. All along the banks and everywhere you looked there were Irises. I looked it up and yes Alaska has a native iris. Pat and I took four starts back with us. Planted one here and sent the other three with my sister that has a commercial iris garden. Surely she can keep them alive and get a bunch growing. Boat riding back to the lodge Mike was napping. That guy can snooze anywhere, VID_20250714_165459493.mp4 Made it back to the lodge and another guide flew out with a client, VID_20250714_131919053.mp4 nomolites and FishnDave 2 "We have met the enemy and it is us", Pogo If you compete with your fellow anglers, you become their competitor, If you help them you become their friend" Lefty Kreh " Never display your knowledge, you only share it" Lefty Kreh "Eat more bass and there will be more room for walleye to grow!" BilletHead " One thing in life is for sure. If you are careful you can straddle the barbed wire fence but make one mistake and you will be hurting" BilletHead P.S. "May your fences be short or hope you have long legs" BilletHead
Foghorn Posted July 24 Posted July 24 Current looked pretty swift where that last plane was taking of!
BilletHead Posted July 25 Author Posted July 25 1 hour ago, Foghorn said: Current looked pretty swift where that last plane was taking of! It really is pretty swift. "We have met the enemy and it is us", Pogo If you compete with your fellow anglers, you become their competitor, If you help them you become their friend" Lefty Kreh " Never display your knowledge, you only share it" Lefty Kreh "Eat more bass and there will be more room for walleye to grow!" BilletHead " One thing in life is for sure. If you are careful you can straddle the barbed wire fence but make one mistake and you will be hurting" BilletHead P.S. "May your fences be short or hope you have long legs" BilletHead
BilletHead Posted July 25 Author Posted July 25 1 hour ago, Foghorn said: Current looked pretty swift where that last plane was taking of! I just checked the gauge at igiugig. There it's 19,000 CFS. Lots of figuring for water depth etc to convert to mph. I might give Duane some homework. I think there is some GPS units in the lodge. See if he can figure out how to use one. Float down the river in front of the Lodge in his boat. "We have met the enemy and it is us", Pogo If you compete with your fellow anglers, you become their competitor, If you help them you become their friend" Lefty Kreh " Never display your knowledge, you only share it" Lefty Kreh "Eat more bass and there will be more room for walleye to grow!" BilletHead " One thing in life is for sure. If you are careful you can straddle the barbed wire fence but make one mistake and you will be hurting" BilletHead P.S. "May your fences be short or hope you have long legs" BilletHead
BilletHead Posted July 25 Author Posted July 25 Tuesday the 15th time is getting short for Pat and I. Work day. Find a leak in a boat on the water plus get a boat with motor on a trailer flat on the ground and get it launched. First pumped water out of leaking boat. Trailer on back of a four wheeler. Backed that in and loaded up leaking boat. Parked an went to work. I peeked under the boat. The keel had been damaged. Like in a strike sideways. It was bent out of shape and sheared off a rivet. Put water in the boat to find that. Everybody had an opinion, VID_20250715_094232292~2.mp4 Scaveged through the tool shed. Found a stainless steel nut and bolt. Had some epoxy. Dave did some body work. Dried everything up applied epoxy and tightened up nut and bolt. , VID_20250715_094601601.mp4 While that was drying took a break. Not sure how but Dave put a hook in the palm of his hand. Doctors Duane and Marty working together did the string/monofilament trick. Popped that hook out and Dave didn't shed a tear. , Put boat back into the water and tied to the dock. No leaks now. Next get boat on trailer. Duane backed the trailer to the nose the boat and attached the winch strap. Dave is a beast he began to crank boat started lifting onto the trailer and ATV lifted at the same time. VID_20250715_113854277.mp4 Duane, Pat and I got on the ATV rear end it went down. Dave started cranking again as Mike pushed the back of the boat with motor. Got it on the trailer. Tried motor after fresh gas and a battery. Launched and tied off. Yeah! The three stooges geared up and headed to find new braids and creek to fish. Sadly Pat and I did some packing and watched our waders and boots dry. VID_20250715_135209299.mp4 We walked to the braid and fished a bit. Had a greyling and rainbow on but that was it. Back at the lodge before taking rods apart I messed with a few sculpin. Did not have a hook small enough for stickleback but big mouth sculpin chomped on an egg pattern. This is for the multi species guys. The contraband iris starts, nomolites, Ham, Johnsfolly and 2 others 5 "We have met the enemy and it is us", Pogo If you compete with your fellow anglers, you become their competitor, If you help them you become their friend" Lefty Kreh " Never display your knowledge, you only share it" Lefty Kreh "Eat more bass and there will be more room for walleye to grow!" BilletHead " One thing in life is for sure. If you are careful you can straddle the barbed wire fence but make one mistake and you will be hurting" BilletHead P.S. "May your fences be short or hope you have long legs" BilletHead
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