Jen, Conrad and I are back in Chignik setting up the field camp. This year the fishery opened about two weeks early, so the purse seiner that we charter to bring our gear upstream was fishing instead. We got our little Lund working and went to the bay for our big boat and some supplies.
The early fishery had Trident seafoods scrambling for tenders to bring fish to the processor, and one of the ones sent out was "Time Bandit", which is apparently a boat from The Deadliest Catch.
Yesterday we went up to Black Lake on a pretty nasty day to do some limnology and beach seining. We got the seining done, but the limnology in that wind was a no go.
We leave quite a bit of food in camp over winter so there is something to eat for the folks that open camp in the following year. That was useful this year because we couldn't get our food for the first couple days. I don't know what is scarier, the way mayonnaise separates after it has frozen and thawed several times, or the fact that miracle whip is impervious to the freezing.
