Thursday, August 23, 2012

Fishing and Shrimping

A hump of a humpy!
Tossing it in the tote


 Gillnetting is done and now I get to stay home for more than a couple of days at a time--what a relief! It was a great season of family gillnetting, but I'm looking forward to living without the constant blare of a diesel engine and being able to actually walk around.


Our life is completely surrounded and supported by food. The thousands of pounds of salmon that we catch to make our $$ is just a start. We have a good time getting delicacies for ourselves in the downtime of fishing. Huck, the self-proclaimed man in charge of the shrimp pot, scored us plenty of prawns last week with a little depth-finder know-how from Dad .




Shrimping

 Huck starts with a shirmpy voodoo dance.....


...then hauls it in until he feels the pot.....
  ....Mom or Dad takes over......
 
....then Huck puts them in the bucket! 

 Mom pops the heads off, 
Huck throws the heads overboard for the halibut to eat, 
mom sautes the shrimp in butter, 
and we all stuff our faces, 
Sriracha sauce optional.


We also scored this tanner crab who happened to be standing on top of the pot when we hauled it in! 
We are so lucky to have this life!