What happened to the moon?

I never never realized how much the sun is shining up here. When we go to bed the sun is up, and when we get up at four in the morning to go fishing the sun is up. It is pretty wierd to get used to. I think that I would rather the sun be up all of the time then have it never up like it is in the winter

This is at ten at night from the dock behind the lodge on the kenai river

This one is at midnight from the same spot

Alaska day 2

We went to Ninilchik to do some halibut fishing. When this pulled up, I wasn't so sure that I wanted to go clear out into the ocean on it.


We caught our limit on halibut, and although Casey caught the biggest one, two out of the three biggest were caught by me.

We were all pretty tired on the way back to the port in Seward

That fish is huge, it is barely off of the ground

Alaska is Awesome!

After we landed in Ankorage, we had a three hour drive to Soldotna. The views were awesome

After our fist day of fishing, we ended up with quite a catch. We caught some red snappers, ling cod, black bass, silver salmon, and of course a bunch of halibut.

The biggest halibut in the picture beats the lodge season record by almost twenty pounds. It weighed in at 142 lbs and Ken Hales actually caught it with a salmon rod set up with thirty pound test line. It was so heavy that after two hours the reel hadn't moved it at all, so our guide pulled it up 250 feet with his bear hands