Congrats to Dewey Bastedo, who made his fame by catching 7 limits of fish, in 7 days, on his 7th trip to Fish Camp!
Week five was fantastic! Usually it’s about this time that the salmon run slows down just a little bit, as the silvers are moving out and the pinks are coming in, but instead the run has stayed the same, if not gotten better!
The humpies (pink salmon) are starting to come in, which is nice because it allows the guys to keep more fish. (Six salmon per species, per person, per day.) Surprisingly enough there were very few snaggers this week! Most everybody stuck to lure-fishing and did extremely well, bringing in 371 silvers for the week! Those Flying C’s are like gold now! (But the Blue Fox lures worked pretty good too!)
Since our previous problems with the halibut boat, we have not been able to get it running again, so we’ve gone back to sending the guys out to the North Entrance in the small boats until we are able to buy a new motor for it. These guys made two trips out there, and managed to pull in a nice halibut!
The evening studies were great as well. Pastor Dean Walker, of Garfield Washington, had the entire group involved in going through certain Psalms throughout the week, which promoted a lot of good discussion and great learning.
I was looking through the pictures on my camera, and I just realized that we only have 4 pictures of this entire week! Oops! If anybody from this week has any great pictures they would like to share, feel free to email them to me at 45below@gmail.com. I’ll post them up! (That goes for all summer as well, not just this camp!)
Overall it was a fantastic week. Thanks so much guys for putting up with our halibut boat difficulties, and nice job on the silver-slaying!
Here’s the group photo:
Left to right: Jonah, Jacob, Ken, Keith, John, Ron, Mike, Dean, Art, Dewey, Mariah, Rusty, Miles, Mitch, Hollis.
Thank you all.