September Shrimp Survey Legs I & II

For my shrimp survey I went out to Ernest sounds which is below Wrangell Island south of Juneau and to Cordova in Hetta Inlet which is near the SE tip of AK.

Piece of Coral

Shrimp Pots

Chopped Pink salmon for bait

Frozen herring that we chopped for bait

Fish eater/Velcro Star

A box crab. I think it is molting.

A spiny dog shark I caught

Squat Lobster

Box Crab

Octopus

Long Horn Decorater Crab

Scale Crab

Spiny Crab

Vermilion Star

Float planes picking up some of the crew

Different types of shrimp we caught in the pots

Rough Patch

Yellow Leg

Pink

Coonstripe

Spot Shrimp

RKC Survey Leg III in SE Alaska Mid July

Lyre Crab

Arrowtooth Flounder

Quillback Rockfish

We stopped over in Gustavus one morning and played a round of golf at the local golf course.

My 3rd Halibut of the season 12.8 lbs not very big but still made some nice fillets.

Filleting a halibut

A wrymouth eel. You had to be careful not to get your hand in the way of its mouth cause it could definitely break it.

Remnants of a WWII P.O.W. camp

We rode our bikes up to Neka Hotsprings near Hoonah it was about an 8 mile bike ride.

We pulled up a crab pot with this Great Sculpin and it had this Yellowfin Sole inside its mouth and it was still alive!!

This is what we use to chop bait for the pots. We take a block of frozen herring and put it through the bait chopper, then fill the bait jars.

Helmet Crab

Dungeness Crab

Shooting skeet.

First time shooting a shot gun and I hit my 1st 2 skeet. Everyone was impressed.