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Our time is set to no clock, follows no etched path, wanders ahead, stalls out, falls behind, time tied to salmon, to the spinners fall, the trouts rise. Wading the myriad currents, casting flies, feeling the dissolution of worry, carried away like the fine gravel beneath your feet. Waiting for that sip, that splash, that tug, all the colors in sharp focus, the sounds overwhelming, happening in a rush like fire allowed to breathe and your whole world is deconstructed, demolished in a chaos of glistening droplets and tension. In that moment our time abruptly stops and we have to remember to breathe.

This past week we welcomed back John Chambers and his Cisco crew. They had high hopes for our salmon fisheries, namely the king salmon, but had to settle for some outstanding sockeye and trout fishing as the kings were not running very well. The Agulowak continued to be a hot producer of sockeye and rainbows. On his first day while fishing the “Wak” Larry Carter caught a sockeye that tied the lodge record weighing nine pounds. The Upper Nushagak had heated up and is kicking out some fast-paced dolly varden action with some insanely aggressive rainbows thrown in to keep things interesting. Frank Calderoni and, again, Larry Carter both caught some large dollies that set a new seasonal lodge record, each weighing around three pounds.

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