2012 Sitka Sac Roe Herring Fishery
April 17, 2012 | Author OneLunG
Well, we’ve been busy once again. This time running around in the 2012 Sitka Sac Roe Herring Fishery. For those of you that don’t know, this is seine fishery, and the primary goal is to get the female Herring and strip their roe to sale overseas in Japan. There are a lot of factors that go into this fishery, and this year the Alaska Department of Fish & Game set the largest quota ever, at almost 29,000 tons.
We fell a little short of that quota this year though. Coming up with just shy of 14,000 tons. When the fish came up, they just wanted to get it on!
A little video courtesy of youtube….
Gearing up…
March 22, 2012 | Author OneLunG
Things have been slow on the home-front lately. With the new job and all we’ve been quite busy. Lots and lots of training…sometimes it seems like it will never end! Only 2 more days and we’re there.
We’ve got some interesting things planned this year. We are the proud recipients of DE318 – Archery only Etolin Island Elk. We’re still debating about whether or not its a task we want to endure. We’ve heard this year is looking a little gloomy with the Elk populations being down, and the $1900 charter fee doesn’t help much either.
Either way we’ll be doing a hunt. Whether its Etolin Elk, or POW Blacktails. We don’t know where fall will find us, but we know it’ll be somewhere in the woods away from civilization for a while, hoping to search out a bit of sanity.
We’re also in the middle of a move from the land-locked capital of this great state, to the former capital. We’re excited with what this may mean for us. We know work wise it’ll be a vast improvement….See what I mean?!
2011 in review…..
December 26, 2011 | Author OneLunG
As the year winds down we tend to reflect on what we’ve done, and could have done. This year had Highs, and it had lows. We wish we would’ve gotten out a lot more, but the arrival of a new member of the family kinda slowed things down. Taking a new job didn’t help much either, but sometimes that’s just how it falls. You just can’t do much about it.
We put in for nine drawing hunts for the coming season. Etolin archery Elk, Juneau area goat, FMA Moose, and TMA Sheep, just to name a few. We hope for success, but you just never know.
Now, for some of the highs:
1.) First ever Brown Bear, with a bow none the less….
2011 Southeast Brown Bear
2.) Our early season Chichagof Brown Bear hunt which yielded no success but was epic anyways!
Port Frederick
Some of the lows:
1.) Not getting out Blacktail hunting a single time! (what’s wrong with us!?)
Sitka Blacktail Buck
2.). A blown stalk on a monster Blackie.
The beach....
Like we said, highs and lows.
We’ve got some awesome trips we are planning on for this coming year, and we’re hoping we can make it work. We probably won’t have much to write about for a bit as we’re in e middle of a move to a new locale in the Panhandle.
We’d like to close by saying thank you to all of you who check often and follow along in our adventure.
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