Bristol Bay Salmon

I'm mixing it up with a little video, for those with a broadband connection it should be good, without I don't know. This first one was taken while I was salmon fishing in Bristol Bay this summer. This is a shot of a little bunch of fish hitting the net, imagine the whole net like this and that's some hot fishing. Let me know what you think of the addition of video.



A little info on the Bristol Bay Sockeye Salmon fishery - It is the largest Sockeye run in the world. This years commercial harvest was around 25 million fish, talk about a natural resource. There are about 1200 drift gill net permits that allow 32' boats to participate in this highly managed fishery.

The Autumnal Equinox and a Wedding

Bring on the dark and cold of winter. Today is when we have equal hours of daylight and darkness, after this day in the northern hemisphere we will be enjoying longer nights and shorter days. To those of us up here in the northern latitudes, Homer is at about 59 degrees north latitude, this change is much more significant.

We started off our fall with a trip down to my brother Shane and his new wife Missy's wedding. It was a wonderful weekend on a guest ranch in Napa Valley near Calistoga. The weather was perfect and aside from Shane and his father going to the emergency room on two separate occasions it was a great time. So fun to see all the family and friends of both families coming together for a great celebration.


For Alec it was all about the pool


The girls were so beautiful the night of the wedding.

We had a great time down there but we knew we were back in Alaska when somebody helped April get all of our luggage out to the curb at the airport while I went and got the car.

A little more than a week ago was 9-14 the significance being that we own a Porsche 914 that I brought back to life before last winter when I had a nice big garage to work on stuff. I leave with a shot of a beautiful September 14, 2005.

Fall comes earlier in Alaska

In the 2 weeks from mid August to now things have changed around here. You can now go down to the spit in the middle of the day and find a place to park. The tourists are becoming fewer and so are the sunny days. On the last clear morning we had yesterday was a little bit of frost on the glass. It won't be long before the mountains across the bay get a dusting of snow.

Here is a radar shot from earlier today.


Looking forward to many more days of this.