This is embarrassing,  but I haven’t had a shower in 8 days now.  Although…if I look at it another way, I am in a shower nearly every day as it has been raining a lot!  

It seems it should count for something, even if I’m wearing raingear for my showers this week.  With the cool (our trailer is generally in the low 60’s) and the damp weather, neither of us has been motivated to do more.

We should have taken real showers on sunny August 6 (4 days ago).  We drove right past one of our favorite shower locations 2 hours after leaving our dry cabin.  When we realized we would have to backtrack 10 minutes, we didn’t bother.  We had showered “just” 4 days before, and usually don’t start planning for showers until day 5.

We have reservations at our favorite AirBNB (with WATER!) in 2 days.  So it is looking like we will be 10 days between showers (cringe).  Wet wipes are useful, but gushing hot water is going to be great!

C and I caught our daily bag limit of 2 coho each earlier today.  We were on the river about 4 hours.  Above is a photo of our 14′ canoe, filleted fish in gallon ziploc bags, stringer, anchor,  4 fishing poles, 2 small tackle packs filled with essentials, fillet knife, small cooler with bait (salmon roe), folding canoe cart, back rest, net, paddles, life jackets, water and bug spray.   While we can each only have one line in the water, we each have one fishing pole rigged for bait and the other with a lure.   I picked some highbush cranberries and have them in a small bag in my lifejacket.  We were each wearing rain jackets, rain pants,  ballcaps, and XtraTuf waterproof boots. 

We are much more organized and less stressed at dealing with possession limits now.  We quickly can, freeze, and/or give away the salmon that we retain. Over the past 4 days we have canned 3 coho, eaten one, given away 2, and have today’s 4 vacuum packed and in our little freezer (we plan to give these away as well). 

Many times we catch and release. In the past several days we have released several coho and all of the chum and pink salmon, immediately after catching them.   Pressure canning won’t be an option in our last 5 weeks as I have now filled all of my jars (about 28) and don’t plan to buy more.