Valdez again

Well it's all over. The whole season is done with.

We got done fishing silvers after only 1 day. The fish were already becoming flushed and old, so we decided to just call it quits and come into the harbor. Luke left the next morning to head back home, leaving me and Andrew to scrub, scrub, and scrub some more. That's seriously all we've been doing the past 2 days. I got to delve into the fish hold yesterday and scrub lovely fish residue out. My journey into the pits significantly improved when I came upon a 10 day old fish, rotting and brown in a tiny nook. The smell was less then fantastic, to say the least.

That was not the last rotting fish for me though, oh no. Today was went through the net, washing it out with a couple hoses. Along the way there were some truly excellent examples of dead rotting fish. Just so everyone knows, these carcasses are the remains of the Valdez run that ended in the middle of July, so they had some time to sit on the bottom and become really ripe. I could tell when we needed to stop and pick a fish out just by smell alone.

So tomorrow we will get the boat hauled out and get to work painting the bottom and doing some fiberglass repair. That's probably about all we will get done before I leave for Cordova on the 10th. I don't really know what all we need to do though, but I'm not sure Andrew does either. We'll see.

Ok well my battery is dying, so it's time for me to head back to the boat and take a stab at making hamburbers. I am making no promises.

-Jack