Hooligan fishing : 20 mile river - Our first trip with touristy photos 😊

We drove 2.5 hr one way to get Hooligan, in the rain and wind. We had rain gear, but still ended up soaked. It was an all day event.

So I will start with the views on the way there.

The trees are turning GREEN!!!!!

A famous foodery in Anchorage

We finally made it, and they have port-a-shitters! Yay!!

So we set up next to the bridge, and walk down the rocks.

So the object is to have your net open and the tail pointing upstream. Then you sweep down strem to the oncoming fish.

Not all nets where full, we would get two to eight in a net at a time. But it does add up!

We switched out a few times. It’s harder then you would think!

We fished for about an hour and got about 500 fish according to @alaskatactical

Then we drove home and started to clean them.
So we, as homeschoolers, examined the fishes characteristics.

One looks like it’s make-up ran

We then started the process of smoking, we used alder wood

Some of the babies kept trying to steal fish
We loaded up three racks of fish and had to wait 1.5 hrs.

Doggie bites

We had one by-catch, this fish

Yay almost done!!!!

And the smoker is done too!!

My kids say they are better then kippers!

We loaded the rest in the freezer.

It took 5 hours to clean all the fish, we had the kids helping.

We are going to smoke more and jar them.

Life in Alaska

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