Arctic Adventures

Yep, it snowed today. Looks like we have a couple of inches right now. I double checked the calendar to see if it was still August. It is...

Last Monday night Kayla, Oren, and I decided to take a short ride down the river. We brought fishing rods and the grub box  (cooler) full of supplies to cook hot dogs for dinner. Stan and Doris had called earlier and had said that they were going to go down to Ukalailuk. We loaded up the boat and headed downriver. We were just around the bend from the pit and we ran across Stan and Doris. We almost stopped but then we couldn't make up our mind what we were going to do, so we just waved and kept on going. I figured we would make a fire at the mouth of Katchourak Creek, but the river was still too high to make a fire anywhere near there. We ended up going just a little ways further down to a long gravel beach scattered with willows. We proceeded to gather a pile of sticks and logs for our fire. For some reason I have been struggling to get fires lit this year. It took me a couple tries, but finally I got the fire going. Oren was chomping at the bit to start cooking a hot dog. I c

     Trout Stringer     Brenden is here for another visit. The first day he got here we went on a short trip downriver for salmon. It was lights out on salmon the whole night. Pixies were working, flies were working, and it seemed like there were salmon every where. We caught fish after fish until about 12:30 am. I decided that it was probably time to head back to make sure we weren't caught downriver after dark. I knew we still had to clean the fish too.   Pink Salmon       The water was super low to start with. I couldn't make it up to the pit to park the boat for the first 3 days that the boat was in the water. We had to park and then wade across the river to get back to the honda. I really abused my prop those first few tries. Day 2     On the way downriver that day I told Brenden, "Shoot! I forgot to grab the binoculars! If we see anything it probably won't be close." Sometime around 11 pm we were both fishing in the slough behind