There are a kazillion people on the water! Mostly in boats because most people are told or believe that King fishing from the bank is next to impossible... well... so far we have proved that to be a myth! (but don't tell anyone 'cause for now we have the bank to ourselves!)For most of the day, we counted up to 30 boats in the water drifting a slot between two islands in this part of the river and most of them were landing fish.
Wednesday, 613. Mark & I arrive and set up on the bank at about 8:00am. The water was already crowded with boats and the guides pretty much ignored us. On several occasions they drifted so close to us that every ones lines got tangled. About 9:30 I hooked & landed the first fish.
It was actually small for a king, only 28 in., but since it was my first Kenai king and only the second king ever that I have been able to hook & land, I decided to keep it. The bummer however is that there is a limit for kings on the Kenai River of just one a day and 5 total for the year. In other words I was done fishing for that day. Anyway I had a blast catching it, it took off on several good runs and even made a couple good jumps! Kings are strong fish!!Less than an hour later Mark hooked & landed his fish. It was much bigger! He was standing on a rock & the fish nearly pulled him in a couple of times! It was great! We were both very excited, our
first spring salmon fishing and we both limit out, it wasn't even noon 
yet! We got some pictures of me holding both fish, (the big one is Mark's catch) but didn't get any of Mark!? I have to remedy that next time!!
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