The KING!

Last night at 7:30 Nathan and Melissa called us and said they went to check out a local camp ground next to a fishing river that opened last weekend for king salmon. We've been fishing for them all week here in Homer so we decided to run up and join them for the night even though we had heard the beach has a reuptation for parties with memorial day weekend. Camping wasn't so great because it was never dark and the kids didn't go to sleep until midnight and I think the parties died down around 5 and I actually went to sleep.

BUT! It was all worth it because Malachi and I got our first king salmon. The way it all works here in Alaska is everyone under 16 gets a catch card but doesn't have to pay the money for a license. Abe and I on the other hand paid an outrageous amount to be able to catch these guys...I suppose if we get our fill of salmon it will be grocery money. Anyway, it's hard for Malachi to pay attention long enough to fish for long so he'll fish for a while then throw rocks and what not on the beach. The cast that caught the fish was a team effort and whoever "sets the hook" gets the catch on their card. Once you catch a fish you have to be done for the day so we wrote it on Mals card and I kept fishing....but we didn't catch any other fish. It was REALLY fun to catch!

Oh, and we ate some for dinner :)