Fisher Girl DeLise

Our little guest cabin now has quite a sweet outdoor space with its fire pit, benches, serving counter and cowboy hot tub (heated by the fire pit). It’s very inviting and we spend as much time there as we can.  The house itself got new stain and an arctic entryway, which helped during the cold winters that we spent here during Covid isolation times.  We bought a tractor last fall and a mill this spring so we could use the trees on the property to make our improvements.  Doug dropped a few trees and milled a bunch of lumber while I was recuperating with my broken arm. We are now in the process of building a pole barn for all of our equipment. Next spring we will work on an addition to the house. It’s really fun to watch our little Homestead grow!

Because of my injured arm, I have been at the helm this season and not pulling any fish out of the ocean. Driving is not quite as easy as it sounds. The main thing is to stay in the right water depth - I don’t want to get too shallow or we will drag gear on the bottom and lose gear. But I also don’t want to be too deep, especially when we’re king fishing, because we want to be as close to the bottom as we can. I’m always looking for the path through the right water depth, usually between the 20 fathom and the 50 fathom lines. That’s number one.  Secondly, and just as important, I don’t want to hit anything. There are always logs floating around and you don’t want to hit one or have it hit your gear. Most frustrating is the kelp. Kelp is everywhere and if it gets tangled in the gear it can impact the way we fish so you want to get away from the biggest clumps. Even one or two stragglers can get stuck in the gear and it’s a pain when you’re trying to pull the fish in to untangle it from