Charlie caught his limit today!

July 13, 2012

Charlie has figured it out!  He lost more fish than he caught, and they were snapping 14 pound line - but within an hour of going down to fish, he had caught his limit of 3 salmon!  They were huge and beautiful - and we were both very excited.  We got about 10 pounds of meat off them and froze most of it.

I made salmon burgers for lunch and they turned out well - it was certainly the freshest salmon either of us had ever eaten.

Went back down to the river this afternoon so I could try - I had 7 on the hook, 2 jumped out of the water while I had them hooked, on made it to the bank - but I did not make it out with any of them. - But I had a blast and felt like I had an idea of what I was doing.  It certainly helps to be able to see them.

We also saw a mother grizzly and her two 2 year old cubs - they ran us off the river twice, and walked right through our fishing spot.  They were amazing to watch, and when mama bear would feed them a fish, they would start growling at each other, their growls were very scary - but still awesome. : )

After the last time they came through, we decided it was time to go - and I had fallen in the river so I was also a bit wet: )  but all was good and it was a wonderful day.