We pulled our nets tonight. Free week ends Thursday morning at 9, but that would be just an hour before high water and without a doubt a struggle, and for few fish... we pulled at the end of this evening's tide after about 1000 lbs, for a total of almost 7000 during free week. Not bad. And now we wait. Maybe for a few hours or maybe a few days.
Josh arrived today. His first duty was to work with Hugh to get the king sides
sealed. It turns out that if we combine two extension cords, we're more likely to flip breakers with the vacuum sealer than if we confine ourselves to one extension cord. So I filleted 15 or 20 salmon this morning and they sealed and froze them. Then Josh's first activity upon arriving at the cabin: sleep. We then did a little fishing before pulling the nets. 
It was a beautiful sunset (and a swift current so I didn't get to stop for many photos, but here's what I got). We had just all piled into the Ambi. There's Evan up on the gunwale, Chris to the right of him, then Roger and Trevor. 
We dropped off Jake and Jeff to clear the inside site in the Grayling, then Josh, Hugh, and Chris into the Bathtub to work on #3 and #4 (picking them and picking them up) which left Evan, Trevor, and Roger with me. Here they are pulling through the net. Roger is on hydraulics, Evan is on the fast pick and Trevor is holding the boat steady with the corks. In this last photo, Evan and Trevor are focused on the net. The idea is to get
through the net and get it back in the water as quickly as possible. The fish (and everything else in the net) come in over the roller and we try to get the fish out without having to call a stop to the net and without pulling ourselves out of the boat. Here Evan and Trevor and ready to wrestle whatever comes in over the roller out of the net.
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