Purl, Interrupted

yo soy fisherperson

Just returned from a delightful weekend of camping on Quartz Creek on Alaska's Kenai Penninsula. We camped with eight friends, two babies and four dogs.

I'm sure everyone around us was thrilled.

Our friends Andy and Steve took us out via a drift boat and a cataraft. We started at Skilak Lake and floated to Bing's Landing, which is the part of the Kenai River known as the Middle River. We floated and fished for about ten hours in really gorgeous weather.

And look what I caught!

It was much, much bigger in person. Seriously.

After growing convinced that I was never going to actually catch a fish, I caught three -- a dolly varden and two red salmon. It was a lot of fun, although much more physically demanding than I'd realized it would be.

Incidentally, today is the six month anniversary of my shoulder replacement surgery. Having missed out on all the fishing last summer because of this injury, yesterday was a pretty great day.

P.S. the rest of my photos from the trip are on flickr.

Posted by cmandala at July 29, 2007 07:33 PM