King Day!!!

So today we took a day of rest, the crew here has been working hard getting the Lodge ready to open and the remainder of crew to arrive this week, so a couple of us decided it was time to go and find some Kings.

Dewey and I headed out at the tide turn about 10 this morning...the Boss decided he would try and keep up and he and Dee and Saylor headed out a little later, GAME ON!!

Dewey and I try a few spots down South hoping to pick up some early Kings, troll for several hours and nothing, two knockdowns, both missed...so about 1 we head to one of my favorite early King spots and lo and behold we pick up a small one, measured legal so in the box it went...radio - King in the Box...no real answer, we know the old man has got to be mad...so less than 15 minutes I nail another one, much bigger so now Dewey and I are real stoked...King in the Box over the radio, this time we get an answer..where are you, how deep, etc, etc...about another 45 minutes go by and bingo we nail another one...our limit...a nice one...so of course we have to rub it in and announce over the radio, knowing Kevin has got to be getting aggravated by our shear numbers!!

4 pm - Blackfly tells us it is time to head in...nothing said about any fish on his end, so we figure we have him!! Get to the dock, his boat is not there, we are disappointed because we want to rub it in...especially if he got skunked...

So we happily hang our fish...



Hold the two bigger ones and see that Kevin is coming in now...oh boy!!



Of course he cruises by the dock and yells out WOW nice fish!! But is grinning, we head down to help him tie up and we both just know we were had!!

Kevin proudly announces, now do you want to see some real King Salmon?? And he promptly pulls two 35 pounders out of the well!!



Kevin and Saylor...



Kevin, Dee and Saylor with all our fish...



Then Dewey and I jump in with all the fish...



One of Kevin's big ones was a Unuk River fish as it was a White King...



Some nice steaks...



A great way to kick off King season at Yes Bay!!

Captain Jim Lucas
(Professor)

BTW - While Dewey and I were fishing we heard a huge echo...something like this one is for you Slammer...we didn't know what it meant until we hit the dock and saw who the echo came from...