Arctic Adventures

It's getting to be fall time of year here. My moose season starts on Tuesday and goes through the middle of the month. Hopefully I will make it out a few times this year. I made 1 trip up to Kelly River a couple of weekend ago. I caught some grayling and salmon but no trout. The river really came up over the past week and a half I have my boat parked right below our house now. It would be nice if the channel below town would make up its mind where it wants to go, so that we could park by town during lower water.   Kelly River We are hoping to go camping upriver next weekend. If the river stays up we might try to go up to Kelly or even to Ricky's depending on a host of variables. Looking Toward Howarth's Camp Starting our second full week of school this week. Seems like it's a little easier for me this year, but it is still a busy time of year.  Can You See the Snow? Trying to Make it Upriver in Kelly

 Oren's Trout Friday was a rain day. We toured the school at bit and had a lazy morning/early afternoon. The weather cleared after dinner so we decided to go down to the pit for a bit and try our luck there. I was chuckling at Oren the whole time. Usually he doesn't have much patience for fishing. He might cast half a dozen times and even if he gets a fish he doesn't fish for much longer than that. On this evening he was just fishing away with grandma and grandpa. I put a KO wobbler on for him, so he could cast good and he is getting pretty good at casting it out there.  Casting After a few casts he starts yelling, "I got one! Dad, I got one!" Sure enough he had a fish on. As he was reeling it up, I thought to myself, "That kinda looks like a trout!" Then it got off before I could tell for sure. A couple of cast later he had another fish on that looked like a trout. We got some salmon and that one trout that evening.  Got a Salmon! ...

My mom and dad finally got to visit Noatak! We had decent weather for most of their trip and they were able to get a taste of everything that we do in the fall time. They got here on the Wednesday AM Raven flight. We had breakfast ready and then my trapping partner, Mike, stopped by to do some work on our door and ended up having coffee and visiting for a while. After lunch we went out to the end of the graves road and walked into the tundra to pick blueberries. The boys were not cooperative for berry picking, but we managed about a gallon between all of us. After berry picking we went down to the pit and went casting for salmon. The salmon were starting to get old there, but we got a couple that we brought home.  Dinner was barbecue moose ribs and then off to fly fish for grayling.       The grayling fly fishing is probably my favorite fishing to do. When the wind is calm there are fish rising everywhere, and it reminds me of catching sunfish off the dock ...

 Oren With Grayling  Helping Mom Cut Fish We got out last week and set a net a couple of times to get our fish for the winter. I think we should be pretty much set as far as salmon goes. Still need an excuse to go after some trout too.  We Set the Net  Wanted to Cut Salmon Mom's Helpers    Production Mode  Red Dog Mine (last year)  Couple Pintails