pigman1 wrote:
Don't know what kind of an RV you're taking and this makes a huge difference. We go up every second year. We start fishing King salmon in the rivers on early runs, then down to Valdez for shrimp and later Pink salmon. We can the Pinks in 1/2 pt jars on site and quit when we have 12 cases (144 jars). Then off to Nanilchik for 2 or 3 halibut charters in Cook inlet. Whenever the Sockeye hit the streams around Copper Center we're there for a week or 10 days and then back to Valdez around 10-15 Aug for the Silver (Coho) run. We started shipping 70 lb boxes home 2nd day Fedex, but that's expensive when you add freezing, the boxes and shipping and you need someone home to accept it. We smoke what we need when we get home.
We now take a 17 cu ft chest freezer in the back of our pickup. We fill it completely and it takes 2 years to eat it, but FABULOUS. We vacuum pack within 2 hours of hitting the dock and freeze within 3. FRESH FRESH FRESH. We run a 14' Sea Eagle inflatable with a 20HP Yamaha. We also have a trailer (properly licensed for road use) in the basement of the RV. Are we anal about fishing? Yeah, probably, but we love it. Heaven before we die. No waiting.
Wow, sounds like you really have it down pat.
How do you keep that freezer powered up? Are there any possession limits to worry about driving it back?
Think I'm going to have to learn to can salmon.....does one kind can better than the other?
