Friday, September 04, 2009

Alaska Treats

Caught Tuesday ...


 Nice having friends in Alaska.  Have four countinng RAK. In this instance, Hucker's friend - and the family's - Jason.  Flew in to visit with the Huck and brought me about 4 pounds of Salmon (fresh and smoked).  Stand-up Boner! 

Interesting kid, Jason.  He moved from MD and landed in AK, with no money to speak of.  Built himself a tree house and lived in it for several years while working as a disk jockey in one of those 10 watt stations, like in Northern Exposure. Huck gave him an i Pod with about 2 million songs (everyone purchased), and Jason set to playing them all along with saying whatever he felt like saying.  He was the number one rated show in wherever the hell he was.  You gotta love that spirit.  And the Salmon, which costs about as much as silver, but tastes better.

Several years ago another AK friend sent me (overnight FED-EX)  about 20 pounds of salmon he caught. We had a dinner party, and still had salmon up the arse.  Put it in the garage freezer.  Went in a few days later and the garage smelled like a dead cat.  Raccoons opened the freezer and pulled that salmon out. What they didn't eat was by now crawling with maggots. Still tasted pretty good though. 

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Rodger we are slaying salmon. Catching our limit daily. Been taking it to work and making people very happy.This is the best year I can remember.My thirteen year old daughter landed a nice chrome ten pound king. Only takes about an hour to limit out. If I new away I would send you some.Want pictures, we come home every night with a cooler full.The run is huge, the water is boiling with them.I'm not joking when I say you can drop your line and get a hit almost every time.
ozaoB

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