Posted by (+10031) 5 years ago
Gunnar was talking about brewing & fish tacos, two things that go well together. But, I didn’t want to hijack his threads with my meanderings, so I'll bore folks here.
I’ve been a slacker the past couple months when it comes to brewing, I’ll get back into the swing of things in the next month or so. I do have 8 gallons of October ale that has been in the fermenter for going on 12 months now - I need to bottle one of these days.
The focus lately has been on fish. It’s the season to put up the year’s supply of fish.
We did recently have fish tacos, we used fresh halibut (the recipe for the white sauce was a little different from Gunnar’s). But, however you sauce them up fish tacos are tasty.
We’re going to put the net in the water on tomorrow’s morning tide. Another 20 Red salmon and we’ll be set, then we’ll likely fish one or two tides for folks who can’t get out and do it themselves.
Two Saturday’s ago we put the net out and pulled in 12 Reds and 5 Kings (jacks). A big ass King hit the net – at first I thought a seal had stealthed in on us and was stealing our fish : -) But it was a King – it blew right through my Red net, left a fair size hole too : -)
The Red and King runs have been okay this year. Maybe a few more Kings that usual, but the Naknek River isn’t a noted King fishery. The Red (sockeye) run is a little below the 20 year average.
So far this season they estimate that 1.2 million Reds have moved up river to spawn and around 5 million fish have been harvested, so things are in balance. The run has likely peaked and will taper off sharply in the next few weeks.

I’ve been a slacker the past couple months when it comes to brewing, I’ll get back into the swing of things in the next month or so. I do have 8 gallons of October ale that has been in the fermenter for going on 12 months now - I need to bottle one of these days.
The focus lately has been on fish. It’s the season to put up the year’s supply of fish.
We did recently have fish tacos, we used fresh halibut (the recipe for the white sauce was a little different from Gunnar’s). But, however you sauce them up fish tacos are tasty.
We’re going to put the net in the water on tomorrow’s morning tide. Another 20 Red salmon and we’ll be set, then we’ll likely fish one or two tides for folks who can’t get out and do it themselves.
Two Saturday’s ago we put the net out and pulled in 12 Reds and 5 Kings (jacks). A big ass King hit the net – at first I thought a seal had stealthed in on us and was stealing our fish : -) But it was a King – it blew right through my Red net, left a fair size hole too : -)
The Red and King runs have been okay this year. Maybe a few more Kings that usual, but the Naknek River isn’t a noted King fishery. The Red (sockeye) run is a little below the 20 year average.
So far this season they estimate that 1.2 million Reds have moved up river to spawn and around 5 million fish have been harvested, so things are in balance. The run has likely peaked and will taper off sharply in the next few weeks.

