A quick update and photo dump!

For spending as much time as I do online and playing around with computers you'd think that I'd update a bit more often. Here's the update.

After a rough first week in Bethel (and all my close friends can attest to that) I settled down a bit and found my groove.

I got the boat ready to go and made a few trips upriver to do some fishing. Brian, Dirk, Rachel and I all went fishing that first Saturday we were all back. Except for a tiny little pike we came back empty handed and were sad.

The next day I took Dirk, my friend Shaun and Shaun's father in law, Bob, out fishing. Bob was visiting from Tomahawk, WI and was exited to put his new Cabela's rod to the test. Bob said that if he only caught one he would be happy. Well, on Bob's first cast out he landed one and all of use breathed a sigh of relief. The pressure was off and now it was all about just enjoying ourselves.

The most popular spot to fish around here is the Kwethluk River. We go up to a place called the "Y" and I guess that's where the action is supposed to be. Well, for all the times I've gone I've never really caught a ton of fish. However, on this particular day we had Bob along and it was only a matter of time before we found a sweet spot and started landing fish left and right. Bob was near giddy with excitement and we were all yelling excitedly every time one of us landed a fish. By the end of the day we had a boatload of fish and huge smiles on our faces. It was by far one of the most exciting fishing trips I had been on in quite some time. Even just looking at the pictures I am about to post make me want to go back and catch even more!