Today is the last full day in camp for the Band of Brothers group. They are planning on hitting the morning low tide & if they get their limits of silvers quick enough fishing the high tide for sockeye down on the Sarkar river. It’s been a great week & we will be sad to see them go.

Tom trying to land a silver salmon out in front of our camp with Pastor Dave on the net

Allen with 3 silvers

Gary with a big one on, One of many.

Bill, Mike, & Ed enjoying a game of cards after a full day on the water

We have also received several encouraging calls from previous campers this year expressing their appreciation for the camp. That is encouraging & uplifting to us. Thank You.

Well the second week of camp is complete & what a week it was! We want to thank campers Doug, Kay, Nick, Nate, Ben, Dave, Howard Jr, Howard III, Don for a great week. You were enthusiastic, encouraging & a fun group to spend the week with. We appreciated your interaction during the Bible Studies. We will miss you. Also a special thanks to the Schachers for all your help.

We went on two trips for halibut this week. We brought back 7 halibut the first trip & 14 halibut the second trip. We also caugt a variety of rockfish, cod, arrow tooth, shark, and greenling.

Everyone caught fish and we ended with a weeks count of 137 silvers, making the total 490 silvers for the season. The fish are definitely bigger this year.

Actually they really are, averaging betweek 12 & 14 lbs.

Aside from fishing, some of the group went on a forest service guided cave tour at El Capitan. Other sight seeing activities included Red Bay Lake, Cavern Lake & Beaver Falls.

Of special note this week Kay Stout has hooked her husband twice, Once 20 years ago when they were married, and the second time this week at fish camp.

Here is Doug & Kay still smiling at each other.

God is good. We removed the hook & there was no swelling, soreness or infection. You could not even tell he’d been hooked and it did not slow down his fishing at all. In fact after he was hooked he was insistent on mooring the boat out on the buoy & using the rowboat to go to shore instead of just coming in. He is one tough guy as we had to push the individual barbs on through the skin to remove the hook. He just gritted his teeth & said “Getter Done” We’ve got video. I’ll post it once I get it uploaded.

We are looking forward to 10 new campers from a church group in Pendleton this next week. Praise God the water tank is full & all the boats are running.