Fishing!

[alukban]

Awesome! I'm so jealous!

[Stuart]

Nice fish! I'm jealous too!

[JPostman]

great pics... hardly ever get to fish myself anymore as I'm strange in that I enjoy fishing but really don't like the taste of most fish.

[AK Troutbum]

There's always catch and release. That's pretty much all I do anymore anyway. That is, at least, until dip netting season comes around.

[kevin_t]

[AK Troutbum]

Thanks for the complement Kevin, but I think you're giving me way too much credit. That picture was taken after a good day of dip netting. Every year Alaska residents are given 3 weeks in July to go out on the Kenai River and net Sockeye salmon as a form of subsistance fishing. You can either do it from the banks of the river (at the mouth where it dumps into the ocean),or from a boat, where you just slowly motor down river with a net in the water and scoop out the fish. For my family, a family of 4, we're allowed 55 Sockeye/year using this method. If you enjoy eating salmon, it's a really good way to fill the freezer for the long winter.

[kevin_t]

I do enjoy salmon and would love 55 real salmon in the freezer, however you post some nice fish photos taken by lower 48 means as well