The ONE and only. . .

My 2007 KING!!!

I caught this beauty while dipnetting in Chitna before the 4th of July weekend. Andrea and I, along with Rachel and Robin, and don't forget Bill :) spent a day and a half fishing on the banks of the Copper River. We drove to O'Brian's Creek, camped there, and walked/biked in .5+ mile to dipnet. The first night we started at 8 pm and did our best until 2 am . . . with only 2 fish to show for it, we were not feeling hopeful!! We headed back out the next morning to find a new spot, but the fish weren't filling our nets any faster, so we headed back to the original eddie.

It was now nearly 4 o'clock and our 60 fish limit (between the group) was not getting filled very quickly. But then. . . it hit!! By 6 pm we had 15 fish! By 9 we had three kings among us, and another 6 reds! We were feeling good now!! Robin, and her amazing skills, captured 2 kings during the evening hours!! She's a bad ass fisherwoman in my book for sure! We ended the evening around 2 am and had 26 reds and 3 kings among us. . . plenty of fish to deal with. . . Robin thought we had too many, so she begrudgingly donated her small king back to the river :( the slippery sucker made it's way back to the waters it came from and we were down to 2 kings. . . still plenty of fish to process at 2 am! It was a great trip overall, and we all went home with some fish. . . yup, even me, who only caught the one fish the whole time (have you heard of such craziness?!?!?)