Back once more

July 30th:

Man today was incredible fishing. By 11 we had filled the hold for the first time after 5 sets. We delivered and went back to work for another 9 sets and managed to fill the boat up to the brim on our last possible set of the day. It was our best day of the year so far, with me clearing over $800 and the boat getting just over $10000. Sure, it took 14 sets but that is an absurd amount of money for 14 hours of work. That comes out to $59 an hour. Something tells me I wouldn’t be doing that well if I was working at Burger King.

We didn’t get done delivering until 2 in the morning. Geez, the lines at the tenders were hellishly long. At least we didn’t have t get up and fish though.

It was funny, for a few sets Jonathan ran the big boat and Andrew did the skiff. It gave him an immense amount of joy to look out and see his dad in the skiff while Jonathan stayed in the cozy top house. I suppose that soon enough it will be me who is banished to the skiff while the Smallwood clan handles the deck work.

Total poundage for the day: 55000

Total poundage sold: 666000

-Jack

July 31st:

Well today was an actually day off. We spent the night in the little bay where we delivered yesterday’s fish, and at about 10 ran back to our set so that we could be the first boat up the next day. The day mostly consisted of movies and TV shows on the laptop, and was nice for recuperating from the 14 sets we did yesterday.

-Jack

Aug 1st:

Wow today was incredible. Another exceptional day of fishing, and we only did like 11 sets. We actually got done early, because sometime right after noon there was an announcement for our fleet that we all had a limit of 55000 pounds for the day. By 6 pm we had our fish and took off for the tender. By 10 we were back in town to socialize. A very good day.

The money I've been making lately is absurd, but I'm not complaining because it is an absurdly large amount. I definitely picked a year to come up here. This season should end up setting a lot of records in terms of the amount of fish.

So I think that this trip to town may be our last for quite some time. Soon we should be heading out to the middle of nowhere to fish near a salmon hatchery for about a month. After that we will be back in Valdez for a few days to fish silvers, and then I'll be done. I can't believe the season has gotten this far already. I only have like 6 weeks until I am sitting back at home aboard the boat.

But anyways, like last time, no news is probably good news once we make it out there. I'm not sure if we are going to run out there today and fish tomorrow or stick in Gravina tomorrow and then run out afterwards.

Total poundage for the day: 55000

-Jack