Ring Nets Required.



This is our daughter sewing new netting onto a ring net. She wasn't happy at all to have this unique talent to add to her resume. We are prepping to take a 4 day trip into Prince William Sound. We sleep on the boat and venture from cove to cove in pursuit of fish and shrimp. The ring nets consist of a large outer ring and a smaller inner ring. It sits flat on the bottom of the bay with bait clipped onto the middle in a bait jar. Shrimp walk to the bait and sit unknowingly on the netting. Then we come along and lift the rings up. The larger ring will rise up above the smaller ring forming the shape of a cup. And inside of that cup will be loads of shrimp!

There is a glacier that meets the ocean where we go for breakfast of shrimp and bacon. We scoop the chunks of ice out of the ocean that have fallen off the glacier to keep our fish catch cool. Seals sit on the ice at the base of the glacier and float around. Of course John always has creative new ideas for catching shrimp. Last time he visited the butcher for free scraps to use as bait. A few years ago we walked up to the river and stepping between Cabela's-clad fishermen who weren't catching anything and landed a big king salmon after a few casts. They gravitated over to him to see what he was using as bait...he had taken a piece of red yarn off his sock and fastened it to the hook.