June 24: In the Emergency Order Period

Day 1 of Josh's recovery period.

Our opening today was from 10 AM to 5:30 PM. Josh sat out - good choice. I thought it would be a running set, but we were able to push the boat ahead of us from the outside buoy to the inside buoy with the net bobbing out behind us. Those are the easiest, least exciting, strongly preferred sets.

We finished ahead of the period closure because the water runs off the nets before we're due to close. That means we don't have to watch the clock to pull our nets; we just have to watch the tide.

The fishing was OK today - there was plenty of time to do things like experiment with different sets (we split the 50 fathom on the inside site so that half of it was pretty high up the beach and the other half was fishing deep. Neither one of them did much - most of the fish were on the outside sites), clean the fish to freeze, clean the boats, and check on Josh (he's doing better).

We did get two small and three larger (maybe 18-20 lbs) kings.

Trina arrived today!! And she brought the throttle cable! I think Bob will be able to put it in tomorrow and we might have the Ambi back for part of tomorrow's opening. Yippee!!

And Brad from AGS brought the giant fork lift over, lifted up the pallet for me to drive the ranger onto from the back of the flat bed so he could lower it down. It seemed a little tippy, but it all went fine.

I still love the dry suit, even though it gets pretty darned hot on a day like today. I think it even helped me not to sink into the mud.