This morning we were up very early, as we had a scheduled charter on the Kenai River. We arrived in the town of Kenai, about 5 miles from Soldotna, at 6:00am and met our guide for the day, Justin. What a great group of people!! We officially got in the boat around 7:30am and were off. We had a bunch of bites right away and Kailey was the first one to pull in a fish -- a Dolly Varden. We didnt want him, so back into the river he went. It was a bit slow at that spot, so down the river we went.. Our guide had just said "yes, no one is in our spot -- someone is going to catch a fish" and BAM I had one on my line. How exciting!! It felt really heavy, but I was not sure what to expect. Justin guided me through what to do and where to get my line so that he could net the fish. As the fish came to the top of the water all of us freaked out a bit!! It was a really, really nice silver salmon!! I was able to land him and couldnt stop smiling!! As the rest of the day went, it was really slow. The sockeye run was almost done and the silver's were not quite in the river yet... Brady had a real nice one on, but it came off right at the boat. A few more bites and lost fish (my fault) and we called it a day -- Mr. Bo was waiting for us!! So, yeah, Momma caught the only keeper on the charter! Woo-hoo!! ;)
After getting back to the lodge and getting pictures taken, we were back to camp and of course Rick was off to do some more fishing -- as he caught nothing today and it was our last day on the Kenai. Tomorrow we will start the journey southbound towards home.... The rest of us stayed at camp and retired to our beds early, we were pooped out from our early morning for sure!
The 15lb Silver and myself:
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