These were the final two days of our fishing licenses and we have tried to make the most of them. Catching fish also means there are fish to clean, vacuum pack and freeze which is quite time consuming. Tuesday morning, our last day to fish, we were on the river at 6:00 AM. Everyone did well except me and I had the worst time I have had all week with snagged fish and lost tackle and I caught none that I could keep. To be legal a sockeye salmon must be caught in the mouth but because there are so many fish in the river and due to the method of fishing for them it is not uncommon to snag a fish elsewhere in the body. A fish thus caught is turned loose or you risk confiscation of fishing gear and a hefty fine. At a little after 9:00 AM we headed for Clam Gulch where a -4.2 tide this morning permitted vast areas of ocean floor to be exposed off from the beach of the Cook Inlet. This enables digging for razor clams which is quite an art in itself since the little critters bury themselves in the wet sand and make their presence known with a small hole in the sand but when they sense the disturbance of digging them out they can burrow deeper at an amazing rate. Anyway we did not do a professional job but we did come back with about seventy clams that then took the next four hours to clean. We then packed 56 pounds of frozen salmon to ship to Leslie and Matt to keep in their freezer until we return home. After that I went back to try to improve my fishing luck from this morning and I caught my limit in a matter of less than one half hour. Wow, what a reversal of fortunes from this morning and it made a nice end to the day. As a weather note is was cloudy and rained off and on with plenty of wind and a high temperature of about 60 today.
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