June 30th, 2009 by Lisa | 1 Comment »

Jacob, and his cousin goes on a halibut trip!

June 30

Little to they know kind of day lies ahead of them… should I wake them up?



Receiving the news that they will be going on a half day halibut charter:

Getting under way:

Aren’t they handsome?

Zach’s catch:

The crews catch:

Master filleter: (Is there such as word?)

Beautiful scenery:

Arriving back to port:

Receiving their catch… alread filleted and ready to cook!

Two proud fishermen! They both caught their limit of two halibut each.

Meanwhile, back at camp, we take the girls into the town of Homer for a little shopping:

Time for an alaskan lunch!

Jade opted for a regular hotdog while Jay and Jasmine enjoy a reindeer sausage:

Ran into grandma and grandpa:

And that’s the highlights of the day!

June 28th, 2009 by Lisa | 3 Comments »

Salmon and Bear Encounter!

June 28

Today is a day to remember forever. The kids, recently joined by their two cousins who flew in to be with us for 2 weeks, will be telling this story to their kids and grandkids for years to come….Unfortunately, due to the surprise moments, the camera was either far from our mind, out of our reach, or the moments just past too quickly. However, despite the pictures we missed, we can certainly tell you a tale to remember! (We have a few pics for you to enjoy!)

Our equipment:

Our waders:

An unexpected 2.3 mile hike:

Hiking with waders turned down:

Resting about 1.3 miles:

Finally made it to our fishing hole:

Zach, Jacob and Jay across the river:

A grizzly upstream fishing for salmon:

A black bear that came a few yards from us.. Jay and another man had to throw rocks to get him away:

After 2 hours of fishing, Jacob brings in the first catch:

And the second catch:

Zach catches several, loses them, and falls in the water… here he is drying out his
waders:

Zach become the net man… Jacob hooks em, Zach nets em:





I failed to get our own picture, but in the end, we had 6 salmon, so I found a picture of 6 salmon caught from the russian river:



Another picture that is not ours, but found on the internet of a bear on a trail. We saw a grizzly bigger than this one on the hike back:

The fate of the fish:

June 26th, 2009 by Lisa | 6 Comments »

Caught our First King Salmon!

June 25

While the kids slept in, Jay and I went out on our own fishing excursion…. and well, the pictures says it all!


After a thrilling 8 minute struggle and waders full of water we pulled
in a 20 pound King!

Lisa gets credit for netting the fish and coaching Jay to relax the line and stay calm:

Back at the RV – A beauty!

The fun part:



Dinner tonight!



That fish took us 4 days fishing and 10 hours~
It also cost us about $800 is fishing licenses and fishing gear – divide that by our 20 pound catch and we made out at only $40.00 per pound! ~smile~

June 22nd, 2009 by Lisa | 2 Comments »

Fishing in Anchorage

June 22

A day prior to arriving in Anchorage, my dad told us about a woman who caught a 49 pound King Salmon a couple days ago out at Ship Creek. The first thing I wanted to do was get the directions and head on out to Ship Creek to check out the action. So, off we went and lo and behold we arrived just in time to watch a filipino man catch a 30 pound King! After a few minutes of fighting with his fish, he was able to drag it onto shore without much of a struggle:

We got so excited that we wasted no time and hurried off to the local Fred Meyer store (like a Walmart) and purchased two new poles, fishing gear and a fishing license for me! We went home (reluctantly) and tried to wait patiently for the tide to start coming in and then anxioiusly headed out for our first adventure with King Salmon fishing:


And so we fished:

And fished:

And fished:

Still fishing..

and fishing..



4 hours later..Jacob makes the last cast of the day:

Congratulations to Jasmine!

We will be back tomorrow!

When we arrived back to the RV, we were greeted by a mama and a baby moose: