I can’t even go with my husband up to Lake Erie any more … once the waves get to be 3-4 ft. I get nauseous.

I take it you had non stop daylight up there in the summer?

That’s a nice salmon there you have! We love Alaskan salmon. So what’s the story behind your screen name? Is walleye your favorite fish?

I have a freezer full of perch and walleye from Lake Erie and crappie from Pymatuning lake in PA. We eat fish a couple times a week.

I did an article for the paper one year called Light All Night. Around the solstice it doesn’t really get dark at night. It goes right from dusk to dawn without darkness. It’s really cool. It can be exhausting though. And the fishing all depends on the tides and when the fishing periods were called by Alaska fish and game. I loved it out on the boat, unfortunately my boyfriend, it was his father’s boat and permit, died suddenly, heart attack, about 19 years ago and it’s been very hard for me to look through these slides. I am now starting to enjoy the memories, finally. We used to catch a walleye occasionally in our net, and that king salmon was delicious.

I can totally understand how you must feel looking through the slides. I hope you can find the resolve to share some more with us.

I spent some time in Finland many years ago and was there during summer solstice. Bright daylight at 11:00 pm, it was crazy! So I have an inkling of what you described.

Did you eat the any of salmon you caught? Did you ever get tired of it? I showed your photos to my hubby and he was quite impressed 🙂

Our boat captain made a salmon stew with carrots and potatoes and celery. It was delicious on the boat. All the salmon boats were limited to 32 feet long and the net sizes were limited, and we had 12-24 hr sometimes longer periods to fish depending on how many had escaped up the river. It’s a way of life. The picture of the boats they are sitting on the mud in the river at low tide. Waiting for the water to come back so they can go out and fish. Sometimes there were 30 foot differences in the tide.

One more question … did you ever encounter rough seas, big waves?

The wind could blow really hard. Also, there were a lot of shallow spots you had to look out for. The old timers knew where to go for the fish. I guess they have electronics for it now.