Ivonne and Jed, this post is for you. Remember, how we tried dipnetting in 2006 and thought it sucked. No fish. Rain the whole time. Stood in the ocean for hours. Well, this summer, Scott Banks and family took us dipnetting and clearly, in the first few minutes we arrived at Beluga RV Park in Kenai, we knew that we had no idea what we were doing back in 2006. Check this out:
The entire weekend we were there, the mouth of the Kenai was packed with people, combat dipnetting and camped out on the beach. In a few hours, we scooped out 13 salmon with this huge net about 5 feet in diameter. Thomas got drenched through immediately with the waves, so he decided to do most of the fishing. Plus, it rained the whole time and the kids got soaked, so after I fished for my one salmon, I took the kids back to our tent. 
The beach is really nasty. Fish guts everywhere. Seagulls feasting on the raw flesh. Fish blood soaking the sand and these old iron boards, that everyone appears to use for cutting fish.
Kyra didn't mind the guts at all. In fact, she stood an inch away from our cutting board and at her eye level the fish was being filleted right in front of her nose. She told me that her favorite part of the dipnetting experience was cutting fish and she asked me if I could teach her.Ethan, on the otherhand, freaked out when he touched my fish with his little index finger. Hilarious how different our kids are.
