Nushagak-Part 2

I arrived at FinsFeatherFurs Camp on Thursday afternoon. My good friend Brad was finishing up his job of detailing the fleet of camp boats with the new company logo. He did a great job and the camp owner was thrilled with the improved look.














Our first full day of fishing began with cloudy skies that soon turned to rain..non stop rain mixed with cold wind. It was pretty miserable. We landed a handful of fish but the conditions really took the fun out of it. The silver lining was that the inclement weather chased away all the anoying insects. Most of our rain gear was so wet that it stopped performing as a repellent and started acting more like a sponge. The camp kitchen tent, which had the only wood stove, was cluttered with soaking wet clothes and gloves along with numerous, frozen fisherman all jockeying for a place to thaw out their frozen appendages. It felt more like late March then mid June.

It was such a relief to wake up the next morning and see sunlight. There was an intense excitement around the camp as fisherman scrambled to get on the river early in order to make up for the time lost the day before.