Homer:Where's The King?!

June 2, 2009 Tuesday Homer Alaska
Ok…this is a delayed blog as we decided we would not post until we could say we are catching King Salmon. We arrived yesterday, fished like H..ll, got reel good at casting… got a lot of information..still casting. This fish are tidal, so theoretically, we fish according to the tide flow. Yea..right. An occasional King is taken, but they are not “running yet”. We are not moving until they are! We may not be home until December…but we are not moving from the Homer Spit until the kings fill our freezer(it’s small).

Homer is the point of farthest from Maine. I have driven, according to Miss Vicky(my Garmin)(she can be trusted-doesn’t drink or get allusions of grander) 6369 miles to get here. In this distance and Marcia and I living in this ..some would say “tight space”..there are a few observations. Dandruff makes a lot of noise falling. Methane from dietary consumption can be an issue. Habits of hearing the refrigerator door “click” “closed” becomes a point of contention. Dry flush or wet?-tough decision at times, not for the user but the listener. Whoa..the freezer door is open. Well, gotta get ice for the scotch! What’s the problem!? We are learning. Hey the dogs are fine..they love “flushing” Eagles here in Homer…yes we see so many..that they re like crows to us. Tough..eh. Ok next post when we get a “fish”.
June3
Ok..still no fish, but no one else has any either. Is that supposed to be a justification or consoling? Anyway, the King Run is non-existant. Everyone is complaining. The State is closing rivers until the migrating fish counts go up. So, the moral of the story..don’t go on a fishing vacation with the Bakers. We threw spinners for 5 ½ hours today..does that count as aerobic activity? Mabe for the right arm. But no problem, tomorrow is another day and another tide to take a shot at.
The girls got two great hikes today. The last was a great one from the hights around Homer down to the beach through a lush warm valley..reminded us of Hawaii (where we caught just as many fish!).
Oh yea , we have new “daily count”: Eagles. Today is was atleast 15 and one was taking a “bird bath” at the boat landing. Big bird bath. If you catch a fish(key word here is “mabe”), you have to keep it close ‘cause if you don’t the Eagles will come and sit on it and not give it back to you. Talk about bullies!
Tomorrow it is supposed to rain, high tide is at 1:30PM, so we will get laundry and showers done before the fish start their run..we decided they will start tomorrow!