Finally... first kings of the year...

Went fishing this morning with a buddy - had no action for about 4 hours, other than seeing a couple other boats catch fish, and getting a great look a humpback cow/calf pair. She was working schools of herring all around the boat, lunging through the surface as herring came flying out of the water in a last ditch effort to escape. She did this 15 or more times, and I luckily snapped this photo of her with the Mendenhall Glacier in the background...





Shortly afterward, we decided to head back in to Auke Bay and call it a day. But we couldn't resist "just one more" drag in the inner harbor, near the mouth of Auke Creek. Landed the larger of these two within a few minutes, the the next (which turned out to be a white king... the relatively rare, pale flesh variety) a few minutes later. Had one more strike and brief hook-up, but that one shook the hook quickly. The skunk streak is broken for the year!