The Silver Salmon are running near Anchorage. Which means that we hit up the "secret" fishing hole to snag some salmon. This was my first experience catching big, feisty salmon on a line. It was an amazing experience... especially because I had a support crew! From here on out I get to do all the jobs, but on this trip I just caught. In the first ten casts I think we caught eight salmon. And it went fast because I had Jay & Austin to take the fish from my line, retie lures, switch out my rod when I lost a lure. I felt like I was on a premier guided fishing trip.

I am working up to my share of the work though, the kitchen has looked like a fish processing plant the last couple of days. We fillet them in the stream and just bring back the salmon fillets, at home we rinse them, de-bone them, and then vacuum pack them before freezing. The vacuum packer is a very cool machine. In your own home you can watch water boil at room temperature. I don't think I'd actually seen that in person before. I'm trying think up other physics experiments I can do with the zero-pressure space that the vacuum packer creates.

I'm not sure what we're going to do with all this fish. I left a message for my parents to clean a space out of their freezer. I'm on the road all winter so it doesn't really make sense for me to be stockpiling food.

not even a "big" salmon

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