This morning we began the day by changing oil and indulged ourselves with a shower! We have a large hole in the net caused by a backlash yesterday that needs fixed before we begin today. As it stands now our total catch is 27,400 lbs. We have an opening today, same short tide, 2:30-6:30pm, only 4 hours…Because of the short fishing openings we’re thinking that maybe we should have gone to the Nushagak???

It’s Tuesday evening, after a very slow day of fishing (860 lbs) and not so encouraging information from the Egegik biologist, we and others from our fleet have made the costly decision to transfer to another river, the Naknek River. The biologist reported that the River was not getting their escapement in a timely fashion, unlike the other rivers that were flowing in as predicted, so they were going to put fishermen on standby in the Egegik district, maybe a day off or so. This transfer to Naknek will cause us to stand down for 2 days without fishing. A hard decision because sitting 2 days at this point in the season will be difficult, but the outcome should pay out. Naknek is fishing 2 tides per day and has a 13.4 million predicted salmon run. Unlike the Egegik and the Nushagak rivers which tend to be early, the Naknek is usually a river that ‘pops’ later in the run than the rest of the rivers, so hopefully we won’t miss much.