Fish for dinner

I took this at about 1am last night. This is what we see of the village of Chignik lake, across the river. There aren't many roads, so everyone gets around by boat. There is a fairly large new high school there as well, but only 50 students or so. There is still a bit of snow on the peaks around, but it is disappearing rapidly.

Chignik lagoon is full of purse seiners right now. There are about 35 boats and they seem to catch 15,000-45,000 fish per day (total).

Finally, we caught some fresh sockeye and cooked it up for dinner. Just pan fried it with almost nothing on it. It was fantastic.

Here are three of our four boats. We have one of the nicest tie up spots on the lake. The river spot to the left is the outflow of chignik lake (the beginning of the Chignik river) and one of the best king salmon holes around. Hopefully soon I will have a photo to show of a big king.